Hunger crisis in Yemen should be a ‘wake up call,’ UN warns - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Dec 3, 2020

A Yemeni boy receives humanitarian aid, donated by the World Food Program, in the country's third city of Taez, on Oct. 10, 2020. — AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images)

A Yemeni child suffering from malnutrition receives at a treatment centre in the country's third-city of Taez, on October 28, 2020. (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images)

UN warns Yemen at risk of 'devastating famine' within months

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Yemeni 8-year-old displaced girl child, Samar Ali Ahmed, weighing nine and a half kilograms suffering from acute malnutrition, is pictured in Hajjah Governorate, in northern Yemen, on September 23, 2020. - The girl, who lives with her family in Abs camp, was unable to go to hospital for treatment due to poverty. (Photo by ESSA AHMED / AFP) (Photo by ESSA AHMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Child malnutrition soars in parts of Yemen

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Three-year-old Yemeni child Randa Ali, suffering from severe acute malnutrition, is carried by her father in the Abs district of Yemen's northwest on February 19

Famine conditions in war-torn Yemen rising sharply: UN

Agence France-Presse

People gather outside a foodstuff store in Yemen's capital Sanaa February 29, 2016. Banks have cut credit lines for traders shipping food to war-torn Yemen, where ports have been battlegrounds and the financial system is grinding to a halt, choking vital supplies to an impoverished country that could face famine. Picture taken February 29, 2016. To match Exclusive YEMEN-FOOD/BANKS REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RTS9B3R

Worst forecasts become reality as Yemen starves

Ahmed Alwly