CAIRO (AP)– Millions of kids could be pushed to the brink of hunger as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps throughout war-torn Yemen amid a “huge” drop in humanitarian aid funding, the U.N. kids’s agency cautioned Friday.
The stark prediction can be found in a new UNICEF report, “Yemen five years on: Children, conflict and COVID-19” It said the variety of malnourished Yemeni kids could reach 2.4 million by the end of the year, a 20%increase in the current figure.
” As Yemen’s ravaged health system and facilities battle to handle coronavirus, the already dire scenario for kids is likely to deteriorate substantially,” cautioned UNICEF.
Yemen’s bad healthcare facilities is unprepared to battle the coronavirus pandemic after 5 years of war in between a Saudi-led military union and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The war, which has actually mainly stalemated, has actually likewise set off the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The conflict erupted in 2015, when the Saudi-led union stepped in on behalf of the internation