Yemen: Fourteen Million People Are Facing "An Imminent And Great Big Famine"

BBC: Yemen crisis: Half of population facing 'pre-famine conditions'

Half the population of war-torn Yemen - 14 million people - are facing "pre-famine conditions", the UN has warned.

Humanitarian co-ordinator Mark Lowcock said survey work showed the number entirely reliant on aid for survival was three million higher than thought.

There was a clear danger of a famine "much bigger than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives", he added.

Medics say the number of deaths linked to food-related factors is rising.

Yemen has been devastated by a conflict that escalated in 2015, when a Saudi-led coalition intervened after the rebel Houthi movement seized

control of much of the west of the country and forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad.

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