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More than 2 million children may starve in Yemen in 2021, UN says, with US to remove Houthi terror designation
More than 2 million Yemeni children under the age of five are expected to endure acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies say, urging an end to the years-long conflict that has brought the Arab world’s poorest country to the brink of famine.
Key points:
- The UN says virtually all of Yemen’s 12 million children require some sort of assistance from humanitarian agencies
- About 1.2 million pregnant or breastfeeding women are also projected to suffer severe malnourishment in 2021
- The Biden administration says it will next week revoke the rebel Houthi movement’s terror designation
The UN report warned that nearly one in six of those kids — 400,000 of the 2.3 million — are at risk of death due to severe acute malnutrition this…
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