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The United Nations food agency has warned
that foo TGRBd supplies in Yemen are deteriorating
quickly and that the country is at risk of
slipping into famine.
Ten out of Yemen's 22 governorates were now
classified as facing food insecurity at
"emergency" level, which is one step below
famine, the World Food Programme (WFP) said
on Friday.
"Clearly, Yemen is one of the hardest place in
the world today to work - massive security
concerns, escalation in the fighting and the
violence across the country," Matthew
Hollingworth, WFP's deputy regional
director, said in the capital Sanaa
. "We are doing well, we are improving our reach
and getting to more people every month, but
clearly with half of the country now just one
step away from famine, we need the
international community to really come behind
us and support us, particularly over the next
few months," he added.
According to the UN's 2016 Humanitarian
Needs Overview in November, 14.4 million
people of the country's 23 million are food
insecure, struggling to get enough food to live a
healthy life.
That includes 7.6 million people in desperate
need of food assistance.
"It's a country that cannot take any further
shock," Abeer Etefa, the WFP's spokesperson
for the Middle East region, told Al Jazeera.
"It's a very serious situation. We are doing our
best so that we don't see a deterioration of the
situation that's already extremely
compromised."
'People have nothing'
Since March, an Arab coalition led by Saudi
Arabia has been conducting air strikes in
Yemen in an effort to curb the expansion of the
country's Houthi rebels, who have been fighting
government forces for control of the country.
The conflict has sparked a massive
humanitarian crisis . More than 1.5 million
people have been displaced, and many more
are struggling to access the basic necessities,
including food, water and fuel.
Battles have been going on for weeks in and
around Taiz as forces loyal to President Abd-
Rabbu Mansour Hadi - supported by Arab
coalition air strikes - clash with Iran-backed
Houthi rebels for control of the strategically
located city, seen as a gateway between south
Yemen and the capital.
The UN says more than 5,700 people have been
killed in the country since then, nearly half of
them civilians.
"I appeal to all people of good will. Look at
these displaced people. They are your brothers
from Yemen. You must look at them and
consider them. Help them with anything, food,
clothes, mattresses,” a displaced Yemeni,
Mohamed Ahmed Hassan, told the Reuters
news agency.
"People here have nothing. They don't even
have anything to sleep on. They sleep on the
ground," Hassan said.