A father gives water to his malnourished daughter at a feeding center in a hospital in Hodeida, Yemen CREDIT: AP
The world’s worst ongoing humanitarian crisis is likely to get even worse before it gets better, according to a recent statement from the United Nations.
About 8.4 million of Yemen’s nearly 28 million residents are “severely food insecure and at risk of starvation.” And according to a May 24 statement from the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, Mark Lowcock, that number could jump by another 10 million by the end of 2018 “if conditions do not improve.”
