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UN warns Yemen at risk of 'devastating famine' within months

The looming famine comes as Yemen records its highest-yet rates of child malnutrition.
A Yemeni child suffering from malnutrition receives at a treatment centre in the country's third-city of Taez, on October 28, 2020. (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images)

Warning that Yemen again faces a looming famine, the United Nations urged donor countries to make good on their funding pledges before a humanitarian catastrophe unfolds in the war-torn country. 

“If we choose to look away, there’s no doubt in my mind Yemen will be plunged into a devastating famine within a few short months,” UN food chief David Beasley told the Security Council on Wednesday. 

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