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Concerns for the 16.2 million people who have long been food insecure in Yemen are at an all-time high.
While the crisis in Yemen is one of the most serious, brought on by protracted conflict, droughts, and floods intensified by the climate crisis, COVID-19, and other diseases, it has failed to attract adequate support from donors for years. Now it risks slipping further into obscurity.
There are immense unmet needs for nutritional supplements and medicine, and many cases of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. There are already massive gaps in funding the humanitarian response for the 20.7 million people in need of assistance in Yemen, including clean water and healthcare as well as food and nutrition. Now, as the conflict in Ukraine pushes up the prices of food, fertilizer and fuel, the situation is likely to worsen. Meanwhile, the rapidly increasing needs of people around the world will also spread humanitarian resources even thinner.
IFRC Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Dr. Hossam Elsharkawi, said, “I’m extremely heartbroken at the devastating level of hunger and severe malnutrition of babies, children, and women in Yemen. As I looked in the eyes of those suffering mothers and children, I was at a loss for words. This is plain wrong and unnecessary suffering for innocent civilians.”
- 23.4 million people are estimated to need humanitarian assistance in 2022,
- 12.9 million of whom were estimated to be in acute need.
- 19 million people are food insecure.
- 17.8 million people lack access to safe water and adequate sanitation services, including 12.6 million people who are in acute need.
- An estimated 21.9 million people lack access to basic healthcare.
- An estimated 4.3 million people have fled their homes since the start of the conflict, including approximately 3.3 million people who remain displaced, and 1 million returnees.
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