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More than 11 million Yemeni children need humanitarian aid as a result of a war raging since March 2015, the UN’s humanitarian coordination agency OCHA said on Monday.
OCHA, which described the conflict as “devastating” said children are facing “the largest food security crisis in the world and an unprecedented cholera outbreak”.
“Deprived of access to basic health and nutrition services, children are unable to fulfill their potential,” it said in a statement.
Children in Yemen are dying of “preventable causes like malnutrition, diarrhea, and respiratory tract infections,” it said.
“The education system is on the brink of collapse, with more than five million children at risk of being deprived of their right to education.”
The United Nations has listed Yemen as the world’s number one humanitarian crisis, with seven million people on the brink of famine and a cholera outbreak that has caused more than 2,000 deaths.
Saudi Arabia has been leading a destructive military campaign against Yemen since March 2015 to reinstate former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and crush the Houthi movement.
The campaign has seriously damaged the country’s infrastructure. In its tallies released in February, Yemen’s Legal Center for Rights and Development said the Saudi war had killed over 12,000 civilians, including 2,568 kids.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
