Conflict-ravaged Yemen has become a “living hell” for children with thousands dying every year from malnutrition and easily preventable diseases, a top UN official says.
Geert Cappelaere, regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at UN children’s agency UNICEF, calls on the warring parties to join proposed peace talks later this month and agree to a ceasefire.
“Yemen is today a living hell — not for 50 to 60 percent of the children — it is a living hell for every boy and girl in Yemen,” he tells a news conference in the Jordanian capital.
According to UNICEF, 1.8 million Yemeni children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition, and the lives of 400,000 severely affected children are under threat.
Cappelaere says that 30,000 children die of malnutrition each year in Yemen, while a child dies every 10 minutes from easily preventable diseases.
— AFP
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