Yemen’s triple emergency: Food crisis amid a civil war and COVID-19 pandemic

• Published in: Public health in practice (Oxford, England) England), 2021-11, Vol.2, p.100082-100082, Article 100082
• Main Authors: Hashim, Hashim Talib, Miranda, Adriana Viola, Babar, Maryam Salma, Essar, Mohammad Yasir, Hussain, Hasham, Ahmad, Shoaib, Tazyeen, Saema, Abujledan, Haya Mohammed, Tawfik ALsanabani, Nusaibah, Khan, Hiba, Ramadhan, Mustafa Ahmed, Tuama, Yahya Dheyaa, Isa, Mashkur Abdulhamid, Ahmadi, Attaullah, Lucero-Prisno, Don Eliseo, Shariful Islam, Sheikh Mohammed, Mohammed Basalilah, Ashraf Fhed
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Civil war; COVID-19; Emergency; Food crisis; Letter to the Editor; Yemen
• ISSN: 2666-5352; 2666-5352
• DOI: 10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100082

Yemen has been termed as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis by the United Nations. About 20.1 million (more than 50% of population) Yemenis are facing hunger and 10 million are severely food insecure according to reports by the World Food Programme. With the spread of COVID-19, the situation in Yemen has worsened and humanitarian aid from other countries has become the basis of life for hundreds of thousands of Yemenis after the threat of famine. Yemen is practically one of the poorest countries in the world. It has structural vulnerabilities that have developed over a protracted period of conflict and poor governance and more than 50% live in starving, they suffer for getting one meal a day. To prevent a total collapse of Yemen’s food crises, the government and the international community should act now more decisively.