The Oscar-nominated documentary “Hunger Ward,” by award-winning filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald, chronicles doctors’ struggle to save lives of starving children in conflict-ridden Yemen
Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies warned
Roughly 280,000 refugees from Africa live in Yemen, and they are among the poorest, most vulnerable people in the world. Aid organizations say during this pandemic, international resources to support them have dwindled to almost nothing. And families say they are barely surviving, choosing to potentially expose themselves to the virus rather than to starve
Yemen’s four years of devastating civil war have taken the hardest toll on women and girls. Many have become widowed and must support their families alone without the needed skills or education
Muna Luqman, Chairperson for Food for Humanity, addresses the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Yemen)
Twittersphere abuzz with Yemen conflict and it’s consiquencies on Civilians specially children who continue to pay higher prices for the conflict.Hundrends of thousands died and injured during the conflict
March 26 will mark the fourth anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition campaign to oust the Houthi rebels from parts of Yemen they had occupied. The fighting has caused what the United Nations calls “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” displacing people from their homes
Even after a ceasefire agreement was signed between the Yemeni warring parties in Stockholm on 13 December 2018, every day in Yemen eight children have been killed or injured. Most of the children killed were playing outdoors with their friends or were on their way to or from school
In 2018 WFP reached 939,000 children under five and 670,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women to prevent acute malnutrition and treat moderate acute malnutrition
The World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization say 73,000 Yemeni civilians are facing famine and another 14 million are on the brink of starvation