Friday, November 02, 2018

Famine

U.N.: Fighting could turn Yemen food crisis into world's worst famine - UPI
UPI reports: "Severe hunger in Yemen could devolve into the worst famine in world history - and threaten the lives of more than a million mothers, a new United Nations report says. [...] The Yemeni civil war, now in its fourth year, has made it difficult to get humanitarian aid into the country [...] Earlier this week, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis urged the Saudi-led coalition and Iran-backed Houthis to stop their attacks within 30 days so peace talks can begin."

Comment: Hopefully they can get the humanitarian assistance where it is needed even if the civil war continues. There are ways of doing that, Syria and Iraq have shown that. 

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