epa09711760 Displaced Yemeni women and their children sit near their shelter at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the outskirts of Sana'a, Yemen, 08 January 2022 (issued 27 January 2022). The escalating war in Yemen has left millions in dire need of humanitarian and health assistance, pushing the United Nations to consider the humanitarian crisis in the Arab country as the worst in the world, with 80 percent of the 30 million-population in need of relief and protection. Some 47 Yemeni families live without much-needed privacy at an IDPs camp on the outskirts of the Houthi-controlled capital Sana'a. The IDPs camps in the war-ridden Arab country are not equipped with safe sanitation services, so the displaced are forced to defecate outdoors at the vacant lands nearby or use plastic bags inside their shelters, causing environmental pollution and the spread of diseases, including cholera. Health and environmental risks in Yemen have been a serious challenge following hunger, which rapidly affects millions of vulnerable people since the full-scale war broke out in March 2015. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees recently estimated that the total number of IDPs in Yemen rose to over 4.2 million after over 1,200 families fled their homes in the first two weeks of 2022. UNICEF estimates that less than 10 percent of internally displaced Yemenis have access to toilets. EPA-EFE/YAHYA ARHAB
Svjetski program za hranu (WFP), agencija Ujedinjenih naroda (UN) zadužena za pružanje pomoći u hrani, objavio je da jemenske porodice pokušavaju preživjeti jedući lišće drveća.
U saopštenju objavljenom na Twitter nalogu WFP-a istaknuto je da je u Jemenu, gdje su sukobi i ekonomski kolaps sve gori, glad počela da se širi cijelom zemljom.
U saopštenju se napominje da su porodice u nekim od ratom najteže pogođenih regija, poput provincije Hacce na sjeverozapadu zemlje, pribjegle očajničkim mjerama da prežive, poput žvakanja lišća drveća.
WFP je 22. decembra najavio da će pomoć u hrani Jemenu biti smanjena od januara zbog nedostatka sredstava.
Jemen je poprište sukoba i nasilja od 2014. godine, kada je pobunjenički pokret Husi preuzeo kontrolu u većem dijelu zemlje, uključujući glavni grad Sanu.
Ujedinjene nacije upozoravaju da je u Jemenu na sceni jedna od najvećih humanitarnih kriza u svijetu s milionima ljudi čiji životi su ugroženi zbog gladi i nedostatka osnovnih uvjeta za život.
