A Man-Made Emergency: How Blockade and War Shape Yemen’s Hunger Crisis

By Carola Di Giansante

Less than two-thirds of a healthy weight, too frail to sit upright, nine-month-old Ahmed represents what one in two Yemeni children are currently facing. Since 2015, Yemen has been caught in a civil war involving the Yemeni government, Houthi armed groups and a Saudi-led coalition supporting the government. By 2018, the United Nations had described the situation as the worst humanitarian crisis the world has seen. Today, over 17 million civilians are food-insecure and the cause of this: war, blockade, weaponization and violence that has plunged Yemen into a 10-year-long crisis, in which the very mechanisms aimed at ending violence are worsening the crisis further. 

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