YEMEN: Millions of Yemenis face hunger during Ramadan

While Muslims worldwide celebrate Ramadan with special meals and tasty treats, millions of Yemenis are suffering from an acute lack of food as the country’s two-year war rages on. According to aid agencies, 17 million people do not have enough to eat, in what the UN calls the “largest humanitarian crisis in the world”.   Typically, […]

While Muslims worldwide celebrate Ramadan with special meals and tasty treats, millions of Yemenis are suffering from an acute lack of food as the country’s two-year war rages on. According to aid agencies, 17 million people do not have enough to eat, in what the UN calls the “largest humanitarian crisis in the world”. 

 Typically, people shop throughout Ramadan, but Yemeni storekeepers have nothing to celebrate. More than two million children are acutely malnourished in Yemen, where a child under five dies every 10 minutes of preventable diseases.