HUNGER STRIKED IN YEMEN
" YOUTH UPDATE!! YEMENI YOUTH More than 300,000 children going hungry in Yemen: UN At least 14 million Yemenis are going hungry, with at least 370,000 children suffering from malnutrition, UN says. More than 370,000 children are at risk of starvation in Yemen, the United Nations has said, 15 months into a devastating war. According to new UN figures, more than 14 million people, about half of the population, are going hungry and are in urgent need of food and medical aid. Some 500,000 children under the age of five are suffering from malnutrition, with two thirds of them so sick they could die if they don't receive immediate assistance, the UN said. "At least 370,000 children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition," Mohammed al-Asaadi, a spokesman for the UN children's agency in Yemen told Al Jazeera on Wednesday. "We're talking about a 50 percent increase compared to the number we had earlier t...