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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Thursday, July 27, 2017
Yemeni children suffer in their millions as war rages, says UN
Violence, cholera and malnutrition combine to leave four in five childen needing immediate humanitarian aid, says UN
Nearly two million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, says UN report (Reuters)
AFP-Wednesday 26 July 2017
A vicious combination of war, cholera and hunger has left 80 percent of
Yemeni children in desperate need of aid, the UN said on Wednesday.
"Nearly 80 percent of Yemen's children need immediate humanitarian
assistance," the executive directors of three UN agencies said in a
joint statement released at the end of a two-day visit.
"Nearly two million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished.
Malnutrition makes them more susceptible to cholera. Disease creates
more malnutrition.
"A vicious combination."
More than two years of fighting between Yemen's Saudi-backed government
and Shia rebels allied with Iran have destroyed much of the country's
infrastructure and left millions at risk of famine.
The country also faces "the world's worst cholera outbreak in the midst
of the world's largest humanitarian crisis", with the number of cases
expected to reach 600,000 by the end of the year, the agency directors
said.
The directors of the World Health Organisation, the UN Children's Fund
and the World Food Programme toured both government- and rebel-held
areas during their visit.
They said they saw "children who can barely gather the strength to breathe" and vital infrastructure damaged or destroyed.
International donors pledged $2.1bn in aid at a conference earlier this
year but only a third of it has been disbursed, the United Nations said
earlier this month.
The shortfall has forced aid agencies to redirect their limited
resources towards fighting cholera, leaving communities at greater risk
of malnutrition.
The war in Yemen has killed more than 8,000 people and wounded 44,500
since Saudi Arabia and its allies joined the conflict in March 2015.
The Saudi-led coalition has imposed a sea and air blockade of rebel-held
territory, including the capital Sanaa, allowing in only limited
UN-supervised deliveries of basic goods.
The cholera outbreak has already killed 1,900 people since April and
there are 400,000 suspected cases across the country, according to the
UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The agency chiefs said prognoses had improved as "more than 99 percent
of people who are sick with suspected cholera and who can access health
services are now surviving".