Famine

U.N.: 8 million people in Yemen nearing starvation:
UPI reports: "Efforts to avert mass starvation in war-ravaged Yemen will be doubled, the United Nations' World Food program announced on Friday. About 8 million people in Yemen are in an 'emergency situation,' a category recognized as a step below famine, the WFP said Friday. It added that an upcoming assessment, later in November, is expected to show that as many as 14 million people will be in an emergency classification. It indicates that half of Yemen's population is a step away from starvation, the WFP's Francis Mwanza Head said. In October the WFP warned that Yemen could face "the worst famine in 100 years."

Comment: The UN  has been running refugee camps and aid camps for decades, if the parties to Yemen's civil war would let them do their jobs, they know how to distribute aid and help civilians caught in the crossfire.