The UN
humanitarian chief says the World Food Program delivered emergency
food to a record 7 million people across conflict-wracked Yemen in
August, “helping to avert potential famine.”
Mark Lowcock
told a high-level event on Yemen on the sidelines of the UN General
Assembly’s ministerial meeting Friday that this represents a 60
percent increase from the average of 4.4 million people who received
food assistance in the first six months of the year. The increase was
partially a result of much higher imports in July.
Despite the
delivery, Lowcock said Yemen “is facing the world’s largest
humanitarian crisis, with nearly 21 million people in need of
emergency aid or protection,” most of them children. He said
the threat of famine still looms.
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