The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that millions of people will face starvation if urgent action is not taken in Yemen, which is in crisis.
UNICEF’s Twitter account made a statement regarding the “hunger crisis” in Yemen.
The statement said, “Children in Yemen are starving not because of lack of food, but because their families do not have money to buy food. If urgent action is not taken, millions may be driven to starvation. Yemen cannot stand to wait. The impact of the economic collapse on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen cannot be underestimated.” expressions were used.
The United Nations (UN) World Food Program (WFP), in its statement on January 30, 2022, drew attention to the fact that hunger has begun to spread throughout the country in Yemen, where conflicts and economic collapse are getting worse.
In the statement, it was noted that families in some of the regions most affected by the war, such as the province of Hajj in the northwest of the country, resorted to desperate measures to survive, such as eating tree leaves.
On December 22, 2021, WFP announced that food aid to Yemen would be reduced from January 2022 due to a lack of funding.
The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have been in control of the capital Sana’a and some regions since September 2014. Coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia have been supporting the Yemeni government against the Houthis since March 2015.
According to UN reports, from the outbreak of the war until the end of 2021, the war in Yemen caused 377,000 deaths directly and indirectly.
The humanitarian crisis, which has grown due to the civil war in Yemen, which is among the poorest countries in the world, has reached terrible dimensions.
