Millions of children in Yemen could be pushed to ‘the brink of starvation’ due to huge shortfalls in humanitarian aid funding amid the COVID-19 pandemic – according to a new UNICEF report marking more than five years since conflict escalated in the country. The report shows that an additional 30,000 children could develop life-threatening severe acute malnutrition over the next six months, and the overall number of malnourished children under the age of five could increase to a total of 2.4 million –almost half of all under-fives in the country and a rise of around 20 per cent;
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/yemen-five-years-children-conflict-and-covid-19
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Yemen-five-years-on_REPORT.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/unicef
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/yemen
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/coronavirus
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/children
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/unicef
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/malnutrition