ICRC:

Yemenis to Run out of Food in Four Months

Rasa - The head of the Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Moscow said there will be enough food for the population in Yemen only in the coming four months if the solution to the worsening military conflict in the country is not found.

News ID: 428985

Date: 18 April 2017 - 22:12

RNA - Magne Barth said at a press conference that the purchasing power of the population is falling, the prices of the main goods have significantly increased and the population is running out of food, RIA Novosti reported.

He added that it will be enough only for four months, if the quick solution for the problem is not found.

According to bulletin of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, almost 19 million people are acutely affected and need some form of immediate humanitarian assistance as a result of the conflict in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 13,100 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.

Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

According to several reports, the Saudi-led air campaign against Yemen has drove the impoverished country towards humanitarian disaster.

Over the past two years, Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has been running state affairs and defending the nation against the Saudi aggression.

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