UN: Yemen at the edge of unprecedented famine

new york - Half of the population of Yemen, some fourteen million people, is on the brink of a famine and is in danger of becoming fully dependent on food aid for survival. Mark Lowcock gave that warning to the Security Council of the United Nations on Tuesday. Lowcock is responsible for humanitarian aid within the UN.

According to Lowcock, there is a danger of a famine that is far greater than anything that experts in this area have ever seen in their working lives. 'In the past twenty years there have been only two famines, one in Somalia in 2011 and one in South Sudan in 2017.