Yemen: Embattled City at Risk of Famine, United Nations Warns

Residents of Taiz, a city that has come under siege in the nearly year-old Yemen conflict, are one step away from famine because combatants have prevented aid groups from delivering emergency supplies, the United Nations said on Monday. The World Food Program, the organization’s anti-hunger agency, said it had managed to send some aid into Taiz over the weekend, but described the shipment as a “one-off delivery” that would feed only 3,000 families for a month. Taiz residents are now among roughly 7.6 million people in Yemen who are classified as “severely food insecure” — a condition in the five-point Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale just above famine level.

 

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