1. Yemen’s triple emergency: Food crisis amid a civil war and COVID-19 pandemic
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Hashim Talib Hashim, Adriana Viola Miranda, Maryam Salma Babar, Mohammad Yasir Essar, Hasham Hussain, Shoaib Ahmad, Saema Tazyeen, Haya Mohammed Abujledan, Nusaibah Tawfik ALsanabani, Hiba Khan, Mustafa Ahmed Ramadhan, Yahya Dheyaa Tuama, Mashkur Abdulhamid Isa, Attaullah Ahmadi, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno, III, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, and Ashraf Fhed Mohammed Basalilah
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Food crisis ,COVID-19 ,Yemen ,Emergency ,Civil war ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
Yemen has been termed as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis by the United Nations. About 20.1 million (more than 50% of population) Yemenis are facing hunger and 10 million are severely food insecure according to reports by the World Food Programme. With the spread of COVID-19, the situation in Yemen has worsened and humanitarian aid from other countries has become the basis of life for hundreds of thousands of Yemenis after the threat of famine. Yemen is practically one of the poorest countries in the world. It has structural vulnerabilities that have developed over a protracted period of conflict and poor governance and more than 50% live in starving, they suffer for getting one meal a day. To prevent a total collapse of Yemen’s food crises, the government and the international community should act now more decisively.
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- 2021
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