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As a seven-day ceasefire came in effect between the warring parties in Yemen, the international charity, Save the Children, said the conflict there had greatly worsened an already dire humanitarian crisis.
The charity said 1.3 million children are acutely malnourished in Yemen and over 300,000 children are one step away from a famine.
Grant Pritchard, Director of Advocacy and Communications at Save the Children, described the conflict in Yemen with its "devastating consequences" for the nation’s population as "a forgotten crisis" and points out that the already dire humanitarian situation there "continues to deteriorate." He therefore welcomed the temporary ceasefire that can offer a lifeline to the beleaguered Yemeni population, of whom more than 80 percent now depend on humanitarian aid.
Prichard noted that over two million people have been displaced internally by the conflict and 14 million of the nation’s population does not get enough to eat on a daily basis. Children are always the most vulnerable when it comes to malnutrition and Prichard said 1.3 million of Yemeni minors are "acutely malnourished." He warns that out of that number, a third of a million children are just "one step away from famine.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
