About 100,000 Yemeni children at risk of dying of malnutrition

A malnourished girl lies on a bed at the malnutrition treatment ward of al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Picture: REUTERS/KHALED ABDULLAH

“We’ve been warning since July that Yemen is on the brink of a catastrophic food security crisis. If the war doesn't end now, we are nearing an irreversible situation and risk losing an entire generation of Yemen's young children,” said Lise Grande, UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Yemen. “We have been warning for several months now that Yemen was heading towards a cliff. We are now seeing the first people falling off that cliff — those are the children under five years of age. Nearly 100,000 of them are at risk of death,” Jens Laerke of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs told a briefing in Geneva.

Aaron Brent, Yemen country director for CARE International, said the aid group had been hearing of Yemenis in the north increasingly selling assets and taking on debt to procure food.

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