Las naciones de todo el mundo se han apresurado a tomar medidas de emergencia a raíz del COVID-19, ya que las empresas se vieron interrumpidas, las líneas de suministro se cortaron y las economías se atrofiaron, lo que dejó a los programas de ayuda exterior con fondos insuficientes y a millones sin alimentos.
El Programa Mundial de Alimentos advierte que Yemen y los países del Cuerno de África, por coincidencia, afirman que Estados Unidos se ha estado desestabilizando durante décadas, podrían enfrentar una hambruna masiva en medio de la pandemia de coronavirus.
A new report from the World Food Program warns that the COVID-19 pandemic could spark a massive global famine, leading to over a quarter-billion people falling into acute food insecurity by the end of the year. While
Entre marzo de 2015 y marzo de 2019, la Coalición liderada por Arabia Saudita lanzó al menos 10,000 ataques aéreos en Yemen que golpearon granjas, 800 que afectaron los mercados locales de alimentos y alrededor de 450 ataques aéreos que golpearon silos y otras instalaciones de almacenamiento de alimentos.
HODEIDA, YEMEN -- The country of Yemen, known in the medieval period as "Green Yemen," is one of the most extensively terraced areas of the world. There, Yemeni farmers transformed rugged mountain slopes into terraces and built dams like the Great Marib, a structure whose history spans long enough that it was mentioned in the Quran. During the
El hecho de que se hayan vendido niñas de hasta tres años es impactante y es un testimonio de la gravedad de la crisis humanitaria, en particular la creciente hambruna del país, que enfrentan muchos yemeníes.
LONDON -- As the entirely man-made crisis in Yemen continues to worsen, the U.K.-based charity Oxfam has stated that some desperate Yemeni families are selling their daughters, some as young as three years old, as child brides in hopes that their dowries can buy them much needed food and shelter. Oxfam made the shocking and disturbing claims in
“Without education [young Yemenis] will not be able to find jobs… A generation that is not educated has a very bleak future. We are losing a generation — many children are losing their education, and displacement makes it worse.» — Meritxell Relano, Yemen’s Director of UNICEF
HODEIDA, YEMEN -- The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), expressing its concern about "future of Yemen’s children,” has said that a "lost generation" has begun to form in
The war has given rise to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Three-quarters of Yemen’s people require life-saving assistance and more than 8 million are at risk of starvation. Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed in the fighting.
A leading international aid group said Wednesday that an estimated 85,000 Yemeni children under the age of 5 may have died of hunger and disease since the outbreak of the country's civil war in 2015. Save the Children based its figures on mortality rates for untreated cases of severe acute malnutrition, or SAM, in young children. The United
With Pompeo now placing the blame on Iran for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, we are only likely to get more of the same stalling while civilians continue to die in the thousands each month.
At the end of the same week that the Trump administration announced a 30-day deadline to reach a ceasefire in Yemen, it was revealed the United Kingdom is planning to introduce a United Nations Security Council resolution that seeks to end of the war. According to a Friday
