YEMEN (Washington Insider Magazine) – More than a dozen United Nations agencies and other relief organizations said Monday that famine is likely to strike Yemen’s war-torn country in the 2nd half of 2022, a fivefold rise from the existing projection.
The severe warning was issued in a study by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, before the United Nations’ annual fund-raising summit on Wednesday. The global cooperation for Yemen (IPC) is a worldwide partnership of 15 United Nations agencies and humanitarian groups operating in Yemen, supported by the European Union, UKAID, and USAID. It monitors and assesses food insecurity in conflict-affected areas.
According to ABC NEWS, the study highlights the grave situation in Yemen, which was thrown into civil war in 2014 when Iran-backed Houthis took command of the capital, Sanaa, and part of the nation’s north, pushing the government to evacuate to the south, and then to Saudi Arabia.
In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition, supported by the US at the moment, launched the conflict in an attempt to restore the globally recognized government to office. The conflict has mostly devolved into a stalemate, resulting in one of the earth’s worst humanitarian crises.
According to the IPC research, 19 million Yemenis, out of a population of over 30 million, are likely to be unable to fulfill their basic food requirements from June to Dec, up from 17.4 million in June.
According to the research, by the end of this year, 2.2 million kids, including 538,000 who already are severely malnourished, and 1.3 million women might be acutely malnourished.
According to the research, the conflict in Yemen is the primary cause of hunger, and the situation is expected to worsen as a result of the conflict in Ukraine. Yemen is nearly totally reliant on food supplies, with Ukraine accounting for 30% of Yemen’s wheat imports, according to UN agencies.
Meanwhile, Farhan Haq, the United Nations deputy spokesperson, stated that financing difficulties had prompted humanitarian projects in Yemen to reduce back or cease entirely due to a lack of resources. He said that food supply for 8 million people has been substantially reduced, and that over 4 million people might lose access to drinking water and hygiene in the coming weeks.
Even while other crises require global attention, Haq sees the next fund-raiser as a moment to show that the rest of the world has not forsaken Yemen, and he calls on donors to commit freely and distribute cash fast.
