'Real risk' of famine in Yemen as death toll passes 3,000
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Conflict-ridden Yemen, where more than 3,000 people have been killed and one million displaced since war broke out in March, is at risk of famine, aid chiefs said on Tuesday, the day after the conflict's highest one-day death toll was recorded. The situation is "clearly deteriorating by the day," said Antoine Grand, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen, with food shortages making famine a "real risk", and electricity and fuel increasingly scarce. In addition, U.N. ...
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