In this Aug. 25, 2018 photo, severely malnourished infant Zahra is changed by her mother, right, in the village of al-Mashradah, Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen. Yemen’s civil war has wrecked the impoverished country’s already fragile ability to feed its population. Around 2.9 million women and children are acutely malnourished; another 400,000 children are fighting for their lives only a step away from starvation.
In a nearby village, a 7-month-old girl, Zahra, cries and reaches with her bony arms for her mother to feed her. Her mother is undernourished herself and is often unable to breastfeed Zahra. When AP approached U.N. agencies with questions about the situation in Aslam, they expressed alarm and surprise. In response to the AP’s questions, international and local aid groups launched an investigation into why food wasn’t getting to the families that need it the most, a top relief official said.
“Deaths happen in remote villages where people can’t reach the health units,” al-Shamshan said. “It’s a steady deterioration and it’s scary.”has wrecked the impoverished country’s already fragile ability to feed its population. The war pits Shiite rebels known as Houthis, who hold the north, against a Saudi-led coalition, armed and backed by the United States. The coalition has sought to bomb the rebels into submission with an air campaign in support of Yemeni government forces.
. Nearly 80 percent of Yemen’s imports come through the port, including much of the humanitarian aid. “Aslam is just another picture of Somalia,” said Saleh al Faqih, a worker in a mobile Health Ministry clinic, comparing it to the Horn of Africa nation often hit by famines. The lion’s share of assistance goes to displaced people, while only 20 percent goes to the local community, said Azma Ali, a worker with the World Food Program. Agencies’ criteria give priority to the displaced and households without a breadwinner, even as local residents also struggle to find food.
dmewing47 OMG. That's awful.
But let's spend a billion dollars rebuilding Notre Dame, because that's what good Christians do.
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for the record in my ecentric way this is kind of what I have spent the last eleven years of life trying to stop.
How can this be happening while $700m dollars has been raised in just a day to rebuild Notre Dame? This world is a mess and our priorities out of order.
The aid dependent ppl of Yemen continue to shun birth control and breed outside their means. When will self responsibility kick in? Halt all Aid and let natural selection do its thing.
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Utterly heartbreaking.
God Knows I Do The Best I Can For All People. I never single-out any person, for race, gender, religion or anything. The $20 I give to an International Charity every month...is the most I can do Right Now. IF I were to obtain far greater finances, I will surely give far more.
AMERICAN children go HUNGRY TOO!
but the world is busy with the cathedral of notredame, as it must be more important than the humans in Africa who have been stolen by the Europeans for almost 600 years.
Also dont eat leaves or the caterpillars will starve
The scope of the systems of Yemen, which deals with the aspects of preparing the establishment of team and the implementation of security systems and safety of peoples where circulation of communities and established by support forces working to impose Union and its contributions
Dont eat leaves or the dinosaurs won't have any food
But let's raise more than 1 billion for an old building
US does nothing at the direction of the Saudi leaders.
Sheesh... what a sad state of affairs for those poor people.