UNICEF: Millions of Yemeni children may starve amid pandemic ~ AJJ News

Friday 26 June 2020

UNICEF: Millions of Yemeni children may starve amid pandemic

June 26, 2020

Millions of children could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across war-torn Yemen amid a "huge" drop in humanitarian aid funding, the U.N. children’s agency warned Friday. The stark prediction comes in a new UNICEF report, “Yemen five years on: Children, conflict and COVID-19.” “As Yemen’s devastated health system and infrastructure struggle to cope with coronavirus, the already dire situation for children is likely to deteriorate considerably,” warned UNICEF.