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.