{"id":15490,"date":"2018-12-04T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=15490"},"modified":"2018-12-04T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:36:09","slug":"un-yemen-on-brink-of-major-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/un-yemen-on-brink-of-major-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: Yemen on Brink of Major Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UN aid Chief Mark Lowcock has warned that Yemen is \u201con the brink of a major catastrophe\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wrapping up his trip, Lowcock said conditions had deteriorated alarmingly since his last visit in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Aden, I met emaciated children so malnourished they could barely open their eyes,&#8221; Lowcock said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He further added: &#8220;Humanitarian assistance helps many of these children recover. But I also heard heartbreaking stories of children relapsing again and again because their families simply can&#8217;t afford food or proper medical care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has termed Yemen the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has played down the early December schedule and said he hoped talks would start &#8220;this year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, as you know, there have been some setbacks,&#8221; he said on Thursday.<br \/>\nLowcock said it was &#8220;not too late&#8221; to pull Yemen back from the brink but warned that more resources were needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yemen is the world\u2019s largest humanitarian operation, but in 2019 it will need to be substantially bigger,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Editor UN aid Chief Mark Lowcock has warned that Yemen is \u201con the brink of a major catastrophe\u201d. Wrapping up his trip, Lowcock said conditions had deteriorated alarmingly since his last visit in October 2017. &#8220;In Aden, I met emaciated children so malnourished they could barely open their eyes,&#8221; Lowcock said in a statement. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15492,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions\/15492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}