ADEN, Mar 12 (NNN-YPA) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), warned that, millions of Yemeni people are at risk of famine, as a result of the country’s years-long military conflict and sharp deterioration of its economy, calling for urgent action.
“Children in Yemen are starving not because of a lack of food, but because their families cannot afford food,” the UNICEF said in a statement posted on Twitter.
The UN organisation said, “The impact of the economic collapse on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen cannot be understated.”
“Without urgent action, millions could be plunged into famine,” it warned.
According to the UNICEF mission in Yemen, nearly 400,000 children under the age of five are slipping from acute malnutrition to severe acute malnutrition.
The UN is trying to end the civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced four million people, and brought the country to the brink of famine.
