CAIRO (AP) — More than two million Yemeni children under the age of five are expected to endure acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies said Friday, urging stakeholders to end the years-long conflict that has brought the Arab world’s poorest country to the brink of famine. Compounding the crisis, around 1.2 million pregnant or breastfeeding women in Yemen are also projected to be acutely malnourished this year. “The crisis in Yemen is a toxic mix of conflict, economic collapse and a severe shortage of funding,” Beasley explained. In 2020, humanitarian programs in Yemen received only $1.9 billion of the required $3.4 billion, the report said. UNICEF estimates that virtually all of Yemen’s 12 million children require some sort of assistance.

Source: Egypt Independent February 12, 2021 13:07 UTC