Alwaght- As the Saudi regime continues unabated attacks on civilians in Yemen, the UN has warned that security and nutrition situation in the war-torn country will turn into a humanitarian disaster.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that the country’s population will face a disaster unless urgent aid is delivered in the April/May cereal and vegetable planting season and the summer fishing season, and vaccination of livestock before winter.
Around 14.4 million people – over half of Yemen's population – urgently need food security and livelihood assistance, FAO reported earlier this week. The volume of food required in Yemen is far greater than humanitarian actors can provide. Agriculture must be an integral part of the humanitarian response to prevent Yemen's dire food security situation from worsening.
Increasing households' resilience to food security threats will contribute to saving many lives. Emergency agricultural interventions are critical to preserving household. Food production and income generation are especially vital in hard-to-reach areas where aid access is limited.
The factors negatively affecting the food security include a reported desert locust outbreak, which threatens the livelihoods of more than 100,000 farmers, beekeepers and herders in five governorates, and the April flooding, which put 49,000 people in need of urgent assistance, the FAO said.
Yemen has been since March 26, 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.
Over 9,600 Yemeni have been killed during the illegal aggression, with the vast majority of them being innocent civilians including women and children.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to fugitive president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to the Saudi regime.
The strikes have also taken a heavy toll on the country’s facilities and infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, markets, schools, factories and mosques.
