Across Yemen's remote mountain villages, the country's war-induced economic crisis has left parents like Hussein Abdu destitute, hungry and watching their children waste away from malnutrition and unclean water. Four years of conflict have pushed Yemen, which was already one of the poorest Arab states, to the brink of famine. War has cut transport routes for aid, fuel and food, reduced imports and caused severe inflation. If I see some scraps of food are left, I get up so that the children will not be hungry. ($1 = 580 Yemen rials at market rates, and 440 at the central bank rate)

Source: bd News24 March 21, 2019 09:00 UTC