As nations gathered Tuesday in Geneva at a United Nations conference on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, the Canadian government said it is pledging $46.7 million in aid. Canada has previously committed $130 million in aid for Yemen overall since 2015. Yemen's brutal civil war has produced the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet, with thousands dead and millions facing starvation. Calling it a "crisis of devastating proportions" in his opening remarks at the conference, Guterres also cited Yemen's acceptance of Somali refugees in the years before its own crisis. Such an offensive could disrupt supply lines, risking a mass famine in the poorest Arabian Peninsula nation, which is grappling with the world's most urgent humanitarian crisis.

Source: CBC News February 26, 2019 18:33 UTC