Guterres warns of widespread famine in Yemen

New York (ST): UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has warned of “widespread famine” in Yemen, calling for an end to the war there.

Two days ago, the United Nations announced that about 16 million Yemeni citizens, representing more than half of Yemen’s population, suffer from hunger, warning that 5 million of these are on the verge of starvation. France-Press Agency quoted Guterres as saying in a statement hours before the start of a virtual conference of donor countries: “For most people, life in Yemen is now unbearable. Childhood in it represents a special kind of hell, and war engulfs an entire generation of Yemenis, and we must end it.”

 With the participation of 100 governments and donors, the United Nations is organizing today, in partnership with Switzerland and Sweden, a virtual conference of donor countries, in an effort to quickly raise $ 3.85 billion for Yemen to prevent a “large-scale famine” in it.

The Saudi regime has continued its aggression against Yemen since March 2015, using all kinds of weapons, which has caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties and massive damage to the infrastructure. The wide siege imposed by this regime has also caused the largest humanitarian disaster in the world as a result of depriving the Yemeni people of their basic needs of medicine and food.

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