"Save the Children": 85,000 children 'dead from malnutrition' in Yemen
An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have
died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity
said.
The number is equivalent to the entire under-five population
in the UK's second largest city of Birmingham, "Save the Children"
added.
The UN warned last month that up to 14m Yemenis are on the
brink of famine.
It is trying to revive talks to end a three-year war which
has caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Yemen has been devastated by the conflict. Fighting
escalated in 2015 when a Saudi-led coalition launched an air campaign against
the Houthi rebel movement which had forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to
flee abroad.
At least 6,800 civilians have been killed and 10,700 injured
in the war, according to the UN. The fighting and a partial blockade by the
coalition have also left 22 million people in need of humanitarian aid, created
the world's largest food security emergency, and led to a cholera outbreak that
has affected 1.2 million people.
