Parts of Yemen are recorded of escalated child malnutrition this year 2020. Due to factors including the coronavirus pandemic and the global economic downturn of the said country. This is in an outcome of almost six years of war in the area that causes now a crisis in terms of aid and food security of the country.
“We’ve been warning since July that Yemen is on the brink of a catastrophic food security crisis. If the war doesn’t end now, we are nearing an irreversible situation and risk losing an entire generation of Yemen’s young children,” said Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, in a report of Aljazeera.
The UN IPC also recorded a 10% or an estimated over a million increase from the previous data of child malnutrition aged below five years old. Which gives now a total of 15.5% cases of child malnutrition in Yemen.
Famine was never been recorded in Yemen, however if the conflicts and struggles continue there's a little chance that a child might survive the crisis of hunger.
