Yemen
San'a (askanews) - Secondo una stima di Save The Children, circa 85mila bambini sono morti di fame o malattia...
As many as 85,000 children have starved to death in Yemen, according to Save the Children with the charity warning that up to 14 million people are at risk of famine if a ruinous war does not end soon.
There had been hopes this week that both sides would keep a fragile truce. The Iranian-aligned Houthi group had announced early on Monday it was halting drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, the UAE and their Yemeni allies, in one of its biggest concessions since it quit the southern port city of Aden in 2015.
Save the Children condemns 'preventable' deaths of under-fives and calls for end to war
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 says. The number is equivalent to the entire under-five population in the UK's second largest city of Birmingham, Save the Children adds.
Disruption to supplies coming through the embattled Red Sea port of Hodeida could "cause starvation on an unprecedented scale," the British based NGO said in a new report. Save the Children said an extra one million children now risk falling into famine as prices of food and transportation rise, bringing the total to 5.2 million.
A further one million children are at risk of famine in Yemen, Save the Children has warned. Rising food prices and the falling value of the Yemeni currency as a result of the conflict are putting more families at risk of food insecurity.
Human rights groups are urging the UN Secretary-General to include the Saudi-led Coalition (SLC) in a child rights' "shame list" after documenting grave violations against children. Save the Children and the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict have documented at least 23 SLC airstrikes which injured or killed children, prompting an urgent call for the UN to help protect children caught in the midst of the deadly two year-long conflict.
Der 14 Monate alte Mansur ist nur eines von vielen unterernährten Kindern im Jemen. Die Hilfsorganisation Save the Children warnt eindringlich.
The conflict in Yemen is the world's forgotten war. Unlike the fighting in Syria, it does not pit Russian forces against Western-backed allies and it does not feature any groups as prone to headlines as the Islamic State. But it has still caused suffering to untold millions.