'A children's crisis': now 80% of all kids in Yemen are in need

War and hunger and the deadly cholera outbreak is combining to create the largest humanitarian crisis in the world

Children are bearing the brunt of the conflict in Yemen, with 80% in desperate need of aid and 2 million suffering from acute malnutrition, the UN has warned.

The impact of war and hunger on the country’s 12.5 million young people has been compounded by what the directors of the World Health Organization, the UN Children’s Fund and the World Food Programme described in a joint statement as “the world’s worst cholera outbreak in the midst of the world’s largest humanitarian crisis”.

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2v2TCPN