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Mar. 12, 2021
The Twitter account of David Beasely, the executive director the United Nations World Food Programme, is not for the faint of heart. A two-day visit he made this week to Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, produced terrifying descriptions of silent children in hospitals who don’t even have the strength to scream or cry.
And these are the lucky children who have managed to get to the hospital in the first place; many families can’t even afford to pay for the trip. About 400,000 young people are suffering from severe malnutrition, and about 16 million people are on the verge of hunger or a lack of nutrition security. The country’s fuel reserves are nearly empty and hospitals have been left without electricity. At the same time, 14 oil tankers have been docked in the Red Sea since early January, because they are unable to enter the port of Hudaydah, Yemen’s main port for receiving food supplies, medicine and other necessities.
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