UN Food Agency: Yemen Enduring 'Humanitarian Catastrophe'

Yemen is facing chronic mass starvation, a United Nations report warns, calling it a "forgotten crisis." The poorest country in the Middle East may be on the brink of famine while it faces bombing and a blockade from a Saudi-led coalition. More than half of the total population of Yemen — some 14.4 million people — are food insecure, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report. The number of food insecure people has grown by 12 percent since...

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