A report found that 2.2 million children, including 538,000 already severely malnourished, and about 1.3 million women, could be acutely malnourished by the end of the year
The report underscores the dire situation in the poorest Arab nation, which plunged into civil war in 2014
19 million people in Yemen — out of a population of more than 30 million — are likely to be unable to meet their minimum food needs between June and December, up from 17.4 million. The stark warning came in a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC,ahead of an annual fund-raising conference that the United Nations is hosting on Wednesday. The IPC is a global partnership of 15 U.N. agencies and humanitarian organizations working in Yemen and funded by the European Union, the USAID and UKAID. It tracks and measures food insecurity in conflict-stricken regions.
A Saudi-led coalition entered the war in March 2015, backed at the time by the U.S., in an effort to restore the internationally recognized government to power. The war has deteriorated largely into a stalemate and caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
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