SANA’A (Anadolu) – The World Food Programme (WFP) warned Sunday that hunger was increasing across war-torn Yemen amid continued rise in goods prices.
“Food prices and hunger continue to rise,” WFP said on Twitter. “The level of need is high with families depending on WFP food assistance to survive.”
The UN agency warned that the protracted Yemeni crisis “is devastating for millions of families.”
The humanitarian situation in Yemen, hit hard by Saudi-led aggression, is aggravated by the depreciation of the value of the Yemeni riyal.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies – including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – launched the brutal war on Yemen in March 2015. The campaign was launched to eliminate popular Ansarullah movement and reinstall Yemen’s Riyadh-backed former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
The war has also been carried out in collaboration with a number of Riyadh’s allied states and with arms and logistics support from the United States and several Western countries.
The brutal aggression, which is accompanied by a tight siege, has failed to reach its goals, but it has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemeni people.
The UN says more than 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger. The world body also refers to the situation in Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The war has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories.
Saudi Arabia is being targeted by the Yemeni army and its allied popular forces continuously, with the Sana’a government saying that it will keep hitting targets deep inside the Arab kingdom as long as the war and siege continue.