Consortium News ran an article by Brett Wilkins on the acute malnutrition in Yemen, as updated in the new, February 12, UN report. In 2021, more than two million Yemeni children under the age of five are projected to suffer “acute malnutrition” — that is, requiring medical intervention. Almost 400,000 of them are suffering from “severe acute malnutrition” — at death’s door. Associated with this, there are more than a million pregnant and breastfeeding women who are also acutely malnourished.
David Beasley, the executive director of the World Food Program, stated: “These numbers are yet another cry for help from Yemen, where each malnourished child also means a family struggling to survive. The crisis in Yemen is a toxic mix of conflict, economic collapse, and a severe shortage of funding.”
