Save the Children (SCF), using UN data, have found that huge numbers of children under 5 perished from severe hunger. Some 84,701 children may have died between April 2015 and October 2018 because of a lack of food. Parents had to witness their children wasting away, unable to do anything about it. Since the Saudi-Emirati military intervention in March 2015, commercial imports of food through the vital Hodeidah port have been reduced by more than 55,000 tonnes a month, enough to meet the needs of 4.4 million people, half of whom are children, SCF said. The World Food Programme says that up to 14 million Yemenis are now at risk of starvation as fighting rages on in Hodeidah. 'Any further decline in imports could well lead directly to famine,' it warned. Multiple past attempts to hold negotiations between the government alliance and Houthis have failed.
Yemen: 85,000 children have starved to death
Written by David Fletcher 22 Nov 2018Additional Info
- Pray: for all civilian families caught up in the war in Yemen. Pray that the port of Hodeidah will be allowed to receive and distribute enough food for all to stay alive. Pray also for an early meeting to discuss a peaceful settlement. (Isaiah 2:4)
- More: www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/yemen-85000-children-died-starvation-181121041742347.html
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