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Rome: Nearly 50,000 people in war-torn Yemen could be affected by famine in the next six months, three United Nations agencies warned on Thursday.
“Pockets of famine-like conditions [...] have already returned for the first time in two years,” the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned. “The number of people experiencing this degree of catastrophic food insecurity could nearly triple from 16,500 currently to 47,000 people between January and June 2021,” they added. The estimates came from a new study of the food crisis in Yemen. It predicted that the number of Yemenis facing “phase 4 food insecurity” - just one grade away from famine - could increase from 3.6 million to 5 million over the same period. Yemen, a country of nearly 30 million in the Arabian Peninsula, has been gripped by civil war between a Saudi-backed government and the Iran-linked Houthi rebels since late 2014. (afp)
“Pockets of famine-like conditions [...] have already returned for the first time in two years,” the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned. “The number of people experiencing this degree of catastrophic food insecurity could nearly triple from 16,500 currently to 47,000 people between January and June 2021,” they added. The estimates came from a new study of the food crisis in Yemen. It predicted that the number of Yemenis facing “phase 4 food insecurity” - just one grade away from famine - could increase from 3.6 million to 5 million over the same period. Yemen, a country of nearly 30 million in the Arabian Peninsula, has been gripped by civil war between a Saudi-backed government and the Iran-linked Houthi rebels since late 2014. (afp)
