‘Millions of children could die’ in Yemen

The UN’s humanitarian chief is pleading with leaders to act or face the prospect of millions of Yemeni children starving to death.

Five years of civil war, fuelled by regional and global powers on both sides, combined with the impact of multiple diseases and now a cut in foreign aid too, have left Yemen in a situation incomparable to any other country globally.

In the middle of the world’s worst humanitarian disaster, now hit by coronavirus and a crisis of funding too, this is what childhood looks like.

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In This Story: Yemen

Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the peninsula, occupying 527,970 square kilometres. The coastline stretches for about 2,000 kilometres.

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