One child dying every 75 seconds as Yemen on brink of 'biggest famine in history'.
Warning from the executive director of the World Food Programme comes as Britain cuts aid to the civil-war-hit country.
(More than two million children under five are suffering acute malnutrition in Yemen).
David G Rose
in Beirut
12 March 2021.
Children in Yemen are dying at a rate of one every 75 seconds with the country at risk of suffering “the biggest famine in modern history”, the head of the United Nations food agency has warned...