Millions in Yemen face food and water crisis
Posted: 28 Sep 2012 @ 00:41
POLITICAL unrest and fears of terrorism in the Yemen are
obscuring the country's worsening humanitarian crisis, leaving
millions of families on the brink of despair, observers say.
Prices of staple food such as rice are reported to have gone up
by 60 per cent this year alone. More than half Yemen's 24 million
people lack enough food. Thousands of children are acutely
malnourished.
The Roman Catholic charity Progressio said that the food crisis
was being overshadowed by ...
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