16m Yemenis will suffer from hunger this year 2021

Some 16 million people in Yemen will suffer from hunger this year; an issue that must be taken into account when dealing with the war in the country, a UN official has warned.

According to the UN official, Yemen imports 90 per cent of its food, and the previous US administration’s decision to designate the Houthi group as a terrorist organisation would have affected that, because almost all of this food is brought through commercial channels, while aid agencies give people vouchers or cash to buy food imported commercially.

The new American administration or President Joe Biden recently reversed the designation amid warnings from humanitarian organisations that the decision would negatively affect millions of civilians in a country which is already suffering the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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