Calls for End to Yemen War Offer Little Hope for Hungry Children

Lying on a dust-covered bed in a hospital ward in Taiz, Ghazi Mohammed, 10, barely has enough energy to watch doctors and nurses examine his emaciated body.  The boy weighs 8.5 kilograms (18 pounds), less than a third of the average weight of a child his age. He fled hunger and poverty in his mountain village last year to find only more suffering in Yemen's third-largest city.  "This shows that the humanitarian aid that comes to Yemen does not reach people who...

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