Alwaght-After 4 weeks of Saudi-led aggression
on Yemen at a crucial time in the country’s cropping season, almost 11 million
people in Yemen are severely food insecure and millions more are at risk of not
meeting their basic food needs, FAO reported.
According to the FAO's assessment, war on Yemenis is disrupting markets and trade, driving
up local food prices and hampering agricultural production, including land
preparation and planting for the 2015 maize and sorghum harvests.
Saying that 10.6 million Yemenis are now
severely food insecure, the FAO report read that 4.8 million are facing
"emergency" conditions, suffering from severe lack of food access,
malnutrition, and irreversible destruction of livelihoods.
Saudi regime-led aggression on Yemen has so far
left hundreds children dead and thousands displaced as well as around 850,000
malnourished.
"More than half of Yemen’s population –
some 16 million out of a total of 26 million— is in need of some form of
humanitarian aid and has no access to safe water", report reads.
While the Saudi war on Yemen has put millions of
Yemeni civilian's lives at Jeopardy, Al Saud claims that they are launching
operation in order to restore democracy in Yemen.
“We are entering a crucial period for crop production in Yemen and now, more than ever, agriculture cannot be an afterthought if we want to prevent more people from becoming food insecure amidst this crisis,” said FAO Representative for Yemen, Salah Hajj Hassan.
Will UN Officials come to the conclusion that war on Yemen should be stopped before the whole country is devastated?
