ADEN, Dec 14 (NNN-SABA) – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), yesterday warned that five million Yemenis “will likely be living just one step away from famine in the upcoming year.”
The UN organisation said, in a brief statement, posted on its official Twitter account that, more than half of Yemen’s overall population could head further into hunger in 2021.
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, as “UN response remains only 49 percent funded,” FAO noted.
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.– NNN-SABA
