World News | 5 Million Yemenis 'one Step Away from Famine' in 2021, UN Warns

Aden [Yemen], December 14 (ANI/Xinhua): The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Sunday warned that 5 million Yemenis "will likely be living just one step away from famine in the upcoming year."

In a brief statement posted on its official Twitter account, the UN organistation said that more than half of Yemen's overall population could head further into hunger in 2021.

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An estimated 50,000 people will be living in famine-like conditions in the war-ravaged Arab country during 2021, the statement added.

Immediate support is urgently needed to save Yemen as "UN response remains only 49 percent funded," the FAO noted.

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Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014 when the Houthi rebels seized control of several northern provinces and forced the internationally-recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi out of the capital Sanaa.

The world's worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen is the result of more than five years of brutal conflict, disease, economic collapse and a breakdown of public institutions and services. (ANI/Xinhua)

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