'Millions of children don’t know when or if their next meal will come'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...hildren-famine-starvation-death-a8545666.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...hildren-famine-starvation-death-a8545666.html
Over five million children are now facing starvation in Yemen as the ongoing conflict causes food and fuel prices to soar across the war-torn country, Save the Children has warned.
A new report from the charity said that a collapsing economy and disruption to food and fuel supplies coming through the Arab nation’s main Hodeidah port could have devastating consequences for the most vulnerable.
An extra one million children now risk falling into famine, bringing the total to 5.2 million. Any type of closure at the port “risks killing an entire generation”, it said.
An estimated 8.4million people in the impoverished nation are malnourished. A United Nations study revealed that the price of food, which was a primary expenditure for 96 per cent of households, had gone up by an average of 68 percent since 2015. The organisation said 981 civilians, including 300 children, died in Yemen in August alone.