Disclaimer:
Before anyone freaks out. I am just making a thread with news updates from Yemen as it is still a serious issue. I do not know the exact death tolls. But the death tolls are high. I am not saying it is one or the other, but want to put this information out for anyone who would like to keep up to date, or spread the word to try to save lives. If you don't care about Yemen then please just ignore this thread. It is a serious topic. Some respect for a starving nation would be appreciated.
As millions starve Many still speak of a Yemen "on the Brink of famine"
October 5th 2018
https://www.mintpressnews.com/as-mil...famine/250361/
HAJJAH, YEMEN —For almost three years, the expression “on the brink of famine” has been repeatedly cited by relief agencies to describe one side of the humanitarian disaster in Yemen. It is an expression that has never been revised, even as it became increasingly inaccurate as the Saudi-led coalition tightened its blockade and ignored the pleas of governments and human rights organizations. Now famine is will entrenched in Yemen and the expression “on the verge of starvation” has become obsolete.
According to Yemen’s local health sources, Aslam recorded one of Hajjah’s highest jumps in the number of malnourished children. Ebrahim al- Ashwal, the manager of Health Office in the province told MintPress that there were 17,000 cases of severe acute malnutrition in the first six months of 2018, higher than any month on record.Mekkiya Mahdi, who heads the Aslam Health Center said: “We have received 14 to 17 cases of those suffering the most extreme form of malnutrition per week.” The Al-Thalouth Center (The Tuesday Center) is just one of the health centers in Aslam that receive dozens of cases each week.
The Ministry of Health, based in Sana’a, said in a statement to MintPress :Now, more than 2 million children have suffered from famine; one out of three children under the age of five in Yemen are already malnourished. There are eight out of nine children with anemia, and there are between one and two hundred girls or women of childbearing age who are malnourished.”
Save the Children warns that 5.2 million children in Yemen now face starvation. Last month, the organization predicted that at least 36,000 children in Yemen — an average of 1,600 children every day — will die from extreme hunger by the end of the year.