The warring parties have committed to an immediate ceasefire in the port city of Hodeidah and its surrounding governorate at the end of a week of peace talks in Sweden
Lowcock, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said those 250,000 Yemenis facing “catastrophe” are overwhelmingly concentrated in four provinces “where the conflict is raging quite intensely” — Taiz, Saada, Hajja and Hodeida
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said this meant an average of 123 civilian deaths and injuries every week during this period
The World Food Programme (WFP) said its food assistance was the only this preventing massive famine in the country, but fighting, high prices and a failing economy are pushing people to the brink
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
The U.N. General Assembly adopted the SDGs in 2015. The 17 global goals provide a framework for ending extreme poverty and hunger, improving health and education, and protecting the planet, all by 2030
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