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International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) warned that millions of children face an increased risk of malnutrition in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
if funds are not urgently allocated to the conflict-plagued Arab country, where one child dies every ten minutes.The UN children’s agency said in a statement on Friday that among the 11 million children in need of humanitarian assistance in war-torn Yemen, "more than 540,000 children under the age of five suffer from severe, life-threatening acute malnutrition", presstv reported.
"And a child dies (on average) every ten minutes from preventable causes," it added.
The organization noted it "urgently needs $484 million" in 2023 to continue its intervention in this country, the poorest on the Arabian Peninsula, devastated by more than eight years of war.
ICYMI: The Iran-backed #Houthis in #Yemen say they are imposing severe restrictions on #UN and other humanitarian flights arriving in the capital, Sanaa between March 25-30, adding that they will allow such flights in the capital only on Fridays.https://t.co/HlFfPGGZvA
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) March 25, 2023