Yemen: millions of children facing deadly hunger, amidst aid shortages and COVID-19 Jabra is seven years old, she lives in Sana, Yemen. She is learning the correct way to wash her hands and how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
© UNICEF Jabra is seven years old, she lives in Sana, Yemen. She is learning the correct way to wash her hands and how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. 25 June 2020 Humanitarian Aid Millions of children in the heart of the world’s worst humanitarian disaster could be pushed to the brink of starvation, due to huge shortfalls in humanitarian aid funding amid the coronavirus pandemic, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. Marking more than five years since conflict escalated in the country between Government forces and their allies, against Houthi rebel militias, the new UNICEF report warns the number of malnourished children could reach 2.4 million by end of year, almost half of all under-fives. An additional 30,000 children could develop life-threatening severe acute malnutrition over the next six months. Yemen five years on: Children , conflict and COVID-19 warns that as Yemen’s devastated