UNICEF: Yemen’s Children at Risk

The U.N. Children’s Agency says Yemen’s youth are bearing the brunt of a four-month-long conflict that is causing a humanitarian emergency in the Arab World’s poorest nation. In a new report, UNICEF warns that nearly 400 children have been killed and 600 wounded in the fighting since March between Houthi Shi'ite rebels and a Saudi-led coalition. Survivors face severe shortages of food, clean drinking water and health care. Many are homeless and displaced within the country and out...

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