Yemen fighting displaces 71,000 children, worsens malnutrition: UNICEF
- More than a quarter of the nearly 2,900 children screened by the UN children’s agency in recent weeks were acutely malnourished.
- Fighting in Yemen is disrupting access to healthcare and treatment centres, causing a rise in acute malnutrition among children, the United Nations children’s agency has said.
- Yemen’s UNICEF country representative, Akhil Iyer, told reporters at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Friday that hunger and malnutrition are afflicting an ever-increasing number of children in Yemen, as violence escalates in the country.
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- More than a quarter of the nearly 2,900 children screened by the UN children’s agency in recent weeks were acutely malnourished.
- Fighting in Yemen is disrupting access to healthcare and treatment centres, causing a rise in acute malnutrition among children, the United Nations children’s agency has said.
- Yemen’s UNICEF country representative, Akhil Iyer, told reporters at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Friday that hunger and malnutrition are afflicting an ever-increasing number of children in Yemen, as violence escalates in the country.
Sources: Al Jazeera