People run following an explosion at the airport in Aden, Yemen, shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed Cabinet landed in December 2020
SOME 16 million people in Yemen will suffer from hunger this year, United Nations spokesman Mark Lowcock warned today, as the humanitarian crisis caused by Saudi bombing continues to unfold.
The UN emergency relief co-ordinator said that 50,000 people are already starving to death, while five million more are just one step away.
Last week, the UN and aid agencies reported that 400,000 Yemeni children under five could die of starvation this year without urgent intervention, amid soaring rates of severe malnutrition driven by war and Covid-19.
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE