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10m face acute food shortages in Yemen: UN

By AFP
July 11, 2020

GENEVA: Nearly 10 million people are facing acute food shortages in Yemen and urgent action is needed to avert a famine, the UN’s World Food Programme said on Friday. The WFP said it needed $737 million to the end of the year to keep its aid programme running in the war-torn country, which is gripped by what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.