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Renewed fighting could deepen food insecurity in Yemen: WFP
Greenwatch Desk
World News
2026-09-22, 5:16am
Fighting in Yemen is causing hunger to grow as “people are not eating enough; there is no healthcare”, says Acting Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) Carl Skau.
He said “tens of thousands” of people are arriving in “overstretched” camps “with nothing”, and the problem is particularly acute in Yemen because the country imports 90 percent of its food, so when ports or airports are not working, “that’s having an impact on food security”.
More than 18 million people, roughly half Yemen’s population, already face acute food insecurity, and some 2.2 million children under age five are acutely malnourished, according to WFP data.
Source: AL Jazeera