Tuesday (January 22nd).
"We found there are more people that are food insecure than we thought, and we also found that more people are in need of nutrition support than we previously thought," he said."The humanitarian situation in Yemen is urgent and people's lives are at stake," AFP reported Trond Jensen, head of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen, as saying.
"We found there are more people that are food insecure than we thought, and we also found that more people are in need of nutrition support than we previously thought," he said."The humanitarian situation in Yemen is urgent and people's lives are at stake," AFP reported Trond Jensen, head of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen, as saying.
According to UN statistics, around 10.5 million Yemenis are food insecure, and one fifth of children suffer from acute malnutrition in some areas, a threshold that exceeds emergency rates.
Experts say Sanaa could be the first capital city in the world to be threatened by water scarcity, as the country's current water share per capita is less than 150 cubic metres a year -- among the world's lowest rates.
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