Yemen in the next six months, mainly because of the overall economic decline and the coronavirus pandemic that has ripped through the Arab world’s poorest country.A report by the World Food Program, the U.N.
Children’s Fund and the Food and Agriculture Organization said the number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity is expected to increase from 2 million to 3.2 million in the country’s south.Yemen has been the site of the largest food crisis in the world, mostly because of the war that pits the country’s Houthi rebels against a Saudi-led coalition fighting on the side of the internationally recognized government.Economic shocks, conflict, floods, desert locusts and now COVID-19 are creating a perfect storm that could.