Yemen facing “worst famine in 100 years”

The United Nations is calling on the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition in Yemen to halt airstrikes which are killing civilians and contributing to what could become “the worst famine in the world in 100 years”


FOOD SECURITY OUTLOOK
By governorate, Oct 2018-Jan 2019

Al Mahwit
Hajjah
Red Sea
Saada
Hodeidah: Entry point for up to 80 percent of Yemen’s aid supplies
Amran
Ibb
Taiz
Al Jawf
Sanaa
Marib
Bayda
Lahij
Aden
Raymah
SAUDI ARABIA
YEMEN
Shabwah
Abyan
Dhale
Dhamar
Gulf of Aden
Hadhramaut
Al Mahrah

160km 100 miles

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
Stressed
Crisis
Emergency


22.2m Number of people in need of humanitarian assistance (75 percent of population)

13m Number of people facing famine and starvation

2.3m Number of internally displaced persons (IDPs), most of them uprooted by conflict since March 2015

16,000 Number of civilian casualties since conflict began – majority caused by airstrikes

78,400 Number of families forced to flee Hodeidah since battle for control of strategic port city began in June 2018


Sources: BBC, UNHCR, USAID 
Picture: Getty Images 
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