Nearly 2.2 Million Children in Yemen Acutely Malnourished and Needed Urgent Care

Dec.31/ Yemeni press

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has warned that kids in Yemen are suffering from highest ever recorded rates of malnutrition amid scarcity of food supplies due to Saudi Arabia’s devastating military campaign against its southern neighbor.

UNICEF said in a report published on its website on Monday that nearly 2.2 million children in Yemen were acutely malnourished and needed urgent care, adding that most of them, around 1.7 million, were suffering from moderate acute malnutrition.

The province of Sa’ada, located to the north of the capital, has the world’s highest stunting rates amongst children, with an unprecedented eight out of 10 children in some areas being chronically malnourished.

“The state of health of children in the Middle East’s poorest country has never been as catastrophic as it is today,”Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, has been under Saudi Arabia’s attacks since March 2015.