Yemen’s humanitarian and food insecurity crisis continues to worsen and malnutrition among children is at an all-time high, but the situation has not yet deteriorated enough to become a famine, experts and observers said.
Almost 14.4 million people in Yemen are food insecure, and almost half of them are in “desperate need of food assistance,” breaking down to one-fifth of Yemen’s population, according to the World Food Program.
Nearly 2.2 million children in the country are acutely malnourished, including 462,000 who suffer from severe acute malnutrition — an increase of 200 percent since 2014, according to UNICEF.
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Amy Lieberman is the U.N. Correspondent for Devex. She covers the United Nations and reports on global development and politics. Amy previously worked as a freelance reporter, covering the environment, human rights, immigration, and health across the U.S. and in more than 10 countries, including Colombia, Mexico, Nepal, and Cambodia. Her coverage has appeared in the Guardian, the Atlantic, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times. A native New Yorker, Amy received her master’s degree in politics and government from Columbia’s School of Journalism.
