WHO Says 75% of Yemeni Children Suffering from Acute Malnutrition
In a tweet on Monday, WHO noted that 16.2 million people in Yemen out of the total of its 30 million population are food insecure.
The organization added that 75% of children in the war-torn country are “chronically malnourished”.
The UN Security Council in October had expressed “grave concern” for the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen including the starvation and the increasing risk of large-scale famine.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing popular Ansarullah movement.
The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead, and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases.
Yemeni armed forces and allied Popular Committees, however, have grown steadily in strength against the Saudi invaders, and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the country.
