U.N. appeals for fresh injection of funds for famine-threatened Yemen


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  • Monday, 25 Oct 2021

FILE PHOTO: Children sit outside a hut at a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) on the outskirts of Marib city, Yemen October 20, 2021. Picture taken October 20, 2021. REUTERS/Nabil al-Awzari/Files

DUBAI (Reuters) - Funds needed to feed millions of people in war-ravaged Yemen could run out in a matter of weeks, a senior United Nations official warned, calling on donors to inject more cash to avert a large-scale famine.

World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley told Reuters the first half of 2022 would be "brutal" for Yemen, which has teetered on the brink of starvation after nearly seven years of war between a Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi group.

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