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September 11, 2019
Right now, more than 15 million people in Yemen are on the brink of starvation. More than one million have cholera. At least three million have been forced to flee their homes, and almost 400,000 children are suffering from severe malnutrition.
The U.N. numbers of the situation in Yemen are almost unimaginable. And things there are getting worse much worse.
The number of people in “acute need” in Yemen rose by nearly 30% from 2018 to 2019, the U.N. says.
“The situation in Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis of our generation, with 24 million people in need of aid,” Mark C. Smith, World Vision’s senior director for humanitarian emergencies, says. “To put that in perspective, that’s 80% of their population. Imagine over 260 million Americans needing humanitarian aid, that’s what’s going on in Yemen.”