{"id":20507,"date":"2020-11-13T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=20507"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:04:22","slug":"yemen-on-the-verge-of-famine-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/yemen-on-the-verge-of-famine-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen on the Verge of Famine – UN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senior United Nations [UN] officials warned on Wednesday that millions of people in war-torn Yemen were facing starvation – as they again appealed for more money to prevent it.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

\u201cWe are on a countdown right now to a catastrophe,\u201d UN food chief David Beasley told the UN Security Council, according to Reuters. \u201cWe have been here before … We did almost the same dog-and-pony show. We sounded the alarm then.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

The UN has described Yemen – one of the globe’s poorest nations – as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis – where at least 80 percent of the people are in need of help.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Beasley told the 15-member council that if “we choose to look away there\u2019s no doubt in my mind Yemen will be plunged into a devastating famine within a few short months.”<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Yemen previously faced famine in 2017 and it was only a massive injection of cash that staved off almost certain catastrophe, according to UN aid Chief Mark Lowcock.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

He told the Security Council that the world body had only received about half of the funds it needs – $1.5 billion – for its Yemen humanitarian operations. In 2019, it received $3 billion.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

\u201cWhen I think about what famine would mean, I am really at a loss to understand why more is not being done to prevent it,\u201d Lowcock said. \u201cIt is a terrible, agonizing and humiliating death … Yemenis are not \u2018going hungry\u2019. They are being starved.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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Senior United Nations [UN] officials warned on Wednesday that millions of people in war-torn Yemen were facing starvation – as they again appealed for more money to prevent it. \u201cWe are on a countdown right now to a catastrophe,\u201d UN food chief David Beasley told the UN Security Council, according to Reuters. \u201cWe have been …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1478,1483,1482,1480,1481],"class_list":["post-20507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis","tag-islam_is_our_symbol","tag-no_to_trump_deal","tag-purposeful_lectures","tag-stay_at_home_to_be_safe","tag-the_zionist_mice-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507","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=20507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20509,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions\/20509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}