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U.N.: Yemen crisis could produce 'worst famine in the world in 100 years'
By Nicholas Sakelaris

Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabian-led airstrikes are exacerbating an already desperate situation in which 18 million people don't know where their next meal will come from, and 8 million are at risk are of starving to death, the World Food Programme said in a report Monday.

The Yemen civil war, now in its fourth year, has shifted to the port of Hodeidah -- the entry point for much of the food and relief aid. If the fighting doesn't stop, the WFP said, Yemen could see the "worst famine in the world in 100 years," humanitarian coordinator for the United Nations Lisa Grande told BBC News.

"Since June, some 570,000 households have had to flee their home from fighting in Hodeidah, while the Yemni riyal has undergone an alarming depreciation, and the cost of basic food items has gone up by a third since this time last year," WFP Yemen country director Stephen Anderson told CNN.

Read more at: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/10/15/UN-Yemen-crisis-could-produce-worst-famine-in-the-world-in-100-years/8381539621983/

In the last 100 years, there have been famines in:

Ethiopia, Biafra (Nigeria), China certainly during the Communist rule there in the 1950s. And I'm sure plenty of other places. In NO way, do I think the UN can be saying, this will be the worse famine of the last 100 years.
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