A new report found that 17.4 million people in Yemen are at a “serious” acute stage of malnutrition and in need of assistance due to the ongoing conflict, while 31,000 people in the country are facing extreme hunger levels.
The IPC analysis expresses particular concern that 31,000 people in the country are currently facing extreme hunger levels — what it classifies as a phase 5 catastrophe — and that the figure is projected to rise to 161,000 over the second half of the year.
The report also categorized 17.4 million people in Yemen in at least a phase 3 “serious” acute malnutrition stage and in need of assistance. The number is expected to increase to a record 19 million starting in June. There are also 2.2 million children acutely malnourished — 538,000 of whom are severely malnourished. Further troubling is that 1.3 million pregnant and lactating women are also suffering from acute malnutrition.
“More and more children are going to bed hungry in Yemen,” UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said a statement. “This puts them at increased risk of physical and cognitive impairment, and even death.”The new figures come amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which has
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