Yemen facing ‘outright catastrophe’ over rising hunger, warn UN humanitarians

Yemen’s already dire hunger crisis is “teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe”, UN agency chiefs said on Monday, as new data analysis from the war-ravaged country indicated potentially record food insecurity.

Read the full article at:

https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2022/03/1113852
Acute food insecurity to rise in 18 ‘hunger hotspots’, warn aid agencies

Acute food insecurity to rise in 18 ‘hunger hotspots’, warn aid agencies

05 Jun 2024

No less than 18 crisis locations already suffering from dire food insecurity could see a “firestorm of hunger” unless aid reaches them urgently, UN humanitarians said on Wednesday.

UN humanitarian office puts Yemen war dead at 233,000, mostly from ‘indirect causes’

01 Dec 2020

Almost a quarter of a million people have died in Yemen’s war, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on its website on Tuesday, confirming the huge toll from a conflict that has ravaged Yemen’s economy and created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

WFP warns 3 million more now ‘teetering on the edge of famine’

07 Nov 2021

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Monday that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine in 43 countries, has risen to 45 million - up by three million this year - as acute hunger spikes around the world.