UN Warning: 13 million Yemenis are at risk of starvation.
The United Nations says millions of Yemenis are experiencing growing hunger amid food shortages and aid to the country.
The United Nations said Sunday that millions of Yemenis are experiencing increasing hunger amid food shortages.
“Displaced families in Yemen are increasingly starving due to the cut-off of food aid,” the UN refugee agency said in a tweet, according to the Anatolia news agency.
The organization said more than half of the 4 million Yemeni refugees live in areas classified as food emergency.
“In January, millions of people will receive reduced rations,” it said, noting that the budget of UN aid agencies in Yemen, including the World Food Program.
Yemen has been plagued by violence and instability since 2014, and the Saudi-led coalition has exacerbated the situation and created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with nearly 80 percent or about 30 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. More than 13 million people are at risk of starvation, according to UN estimates.
Norwegian Special Representative for Yemen Sharsti Tromsdal, who recently visited Tehran, met with Ali Asghar Khaji, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Special Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The domestic and foreign scenes of Yemen were examined and the areas of joint cooperation between Iran and Norway in relation to the Yemeni crisis were discussed and discussed.
During the meeting, the two sides discussed various issues and dimensions of the Yemeni crisis, and discussed ways to achieve peace and end the crisis in the country.
During the meeting, Khaji referred to the deplorable situation of the resilient people of Yemen and the very difficult conditions resulting from the war and the oppressive economic siege, and called for more intervention by the United Nations and the international community to stop the war and lift the inhuman siege.
