The UNICEF Regional Director said seven million children in Yemen go to sleep hungry every night and some 400,000 face life threatening severe acute malnutrition
Around seventy-five percent of Yemen’s population needs assistance as food prices have shot up due to inflation fueled by fighting around the country’s seaports
Some 20 million people out of Yemen’s population of 29 million are dependent on the commercial market to feed their families
The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate has increased scrutiny of Western support for the coalition and ramped up pressure on Riyadh0
The most complicated cases are children who are not only severely malnourished but who also are suffering from cholera
A Saudi Arabian-led coalition began bombing Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in support of Yemen’s government in March 2015. Since then, the U.N. estimates, more than 10,000 people have been killed, mostly in airstrikes.