YeMenIS In ‘DIRe’ fOOD CRISIS: SuRveY

GENEVA — Yemen’s war and the ensuing economic collapse has left 15.9 million people, 53% of the population, facing “severe acute food insecurity” and famine was a danger if immediate action was not taken, a survey said on Saturday.

While war was the main cause of the hunger crisis, it was exacerbated by extremely high food prices, a liquidity crisis, disrupted livelihoods, and high levels of unemployment, the report said, adding food aid was not enough to plug the gap.

“Immediate responses are required to save lives and livelihoods of millions not to slide to the next worse case which is famine,” it said. —