Famine Threatens Yemen Amid Civil War
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The Saudi-led coalition that supports the Yemeni government has created a virtual blockade for food ships to reach Yemen’s ports during the 18-month long civil war, according to Reuters, while a call to reorganize Yemen’s central bank threatens to make the crisis worse.
A woman holds her malnourished boy after he was weighed at a hospital malnutrition intensive care unit in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 27, 2016.
A woman holds her malnourished boy after he was weighed at a hospital malnutrition intensive care unit in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 27, 2016.