UN says 16 million Yemenis ‘marching towards starvation’
Al Jazeera
Head of World Food Programme warns food rations for millions in Yemen will be cut in October unless new funding arrives.
The head of the UN food agency is warning that 16 million people in Yemen “are marching towards starvation”, adding that food rations for millions in the war-torn nation will be cut in October unless new funding arrives.
David Beasley said on Wednesday at a high-level meeting on Yemen’s humanitarian crisis that the United States, Germany, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and other donors stepped up when the World Food Programme (WFP) was running out of money earlier this year and “because of that we averted famine and catastrophe”.
WFP is running out of money again and without new funding, reductions will be made in rations for 3.2 million people in October and for five million by December, he said.
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