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The head of the World Food Program (WFP) said the agency is racing against time to prevent famine in war-scarred Yemen.
Ertharin Cousin, the Executive Director of WFP, said Monday that 7 million people face severe food shortages.
Cousin said that without increased international funding and more access to the hungry, "we will see famine-like conditions" and that people will die in some of the hardest-hit areas.
The UN official spoke in Jordan after a three-day visit to Yemen.
WFP said it urgently needs $460 million through August as well as access by sea and land to help all 7 million people who cannot survive without food aid.
The Arab world's poorest country has been ravaged by a two-year-old conflict between the Houthi Ansarullah revolutionaries and the regime of former fugitive President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The fighting has left more than 10,000 civilians dead.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
