{"id":47586,"date":"2019-10-24T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T01:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47586"},"modified":"2019-10-24T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T01:20:34","slug":"unicef-says-over-5000-children-killed-injured-in-yemens-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47586","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF Says Over 5,000 Children Killed, Injured In Yemen&#8217;s War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SANAA, Oct 24 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; More than 5,000 Yemeni children have been killed or injured, since the war erupted between the Saudi-backed exiled Yemeni government and Iran-allied Houthi rebels, in Mar 2015, the representative of the UNICEF in Yemen said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The escalating conflict forced nearly half a million Yemeni children out of school,&#8221; Sara Beysolow Nyanti told reporters, at a ceremony in the capital, Sanaa, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The situation of Yemeni children is very miserable,&#8221; she said, calling on all Yemeni parties, to immediately end the war and move towards peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNICEF would release updated statistics of Yemeni child victims of the war in Nov, Nyanti noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An estimated two million children in Yemen are currently suffering from acute malnutrition, including 360,000 under five years old, according to recent UNICEF reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen, 24.1 million people, or nearly 80 percent of the population, require some form of humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yemen is suffering a long-running civil war between the government and Houthi rebels, which humanitarians said, has brought the country to the brink of famine.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA, Oct 24 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; More than 5,000 Yemeni children have been killed or injured, since the war erupted between the Saudi-backed exiled Yemeni government and Iran-allied Houthi rebels, in Mar 2015, the representative of the UNICEF in Yemen said. &#8220;The escalating conflict forced nearly half a million Yemeni children out of school,&#8221; Sara Beysolow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,198,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}