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U.N.: Half of Yemenis Threatened by Food Crisis | |||||||
2014-05-31 | |||||||
[AnNahar] Nearly half of Yemen's population is going hungry, the U.N.'s food agency warned Friday, saying it was scaling up its aid to the impoverished country. More than 10 million of Yemen's some 25 million inhabitants are either severely food insecure -- meaning they require food assistance because they cannot find enough food for themselves -- or teetering on the edge, the World Food Program said. The country has one of the world's highest levels of malnutrition among children, with nearly half of all kids under the age of five -- a full two million of them -- stunted, WFP spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs told news hounds. A million of those kids are acutely malnourished, she said. The problem is difficult to tackle.
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... was ousted in February 2012 after a year of deadly protests against his 33-year rule. The country is struggling with endemic poverty, political instability, large-scale displacement of Yemenis and refugee influxes from other countries, civil strife and rife insecurity.
Starting in July, the U.N. agency plans to launch a special two-year "Recovery Operation," aimed at addressing long-term hunger and helping ensure food stability for some six million people.
So far however, WFP remains $117.5 million short to cover its operations just until the end of this year, Byrs said.
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