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  ‘Yemenis are not going hungry, they are being starved,’ says World Food Programme’s David Beasley as he warns of another ‘looming famine’. A nurse holds a malnourished girl at al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen.   The United states  has once again warned of millions of men, women and childar-torn Yemen are facing famine as it issued yet another appeal for more money to prevent it. “We are on a countdown right now to a catastrophe,” UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley told the UN Security Council on WednesdayWednesday. “We have been here before … We did almost the same dog-and-pony show. We sounded the alarm then,” the head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN body said. The UN describes Yemen as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 80 percent of the country’s 30 million people in need of help. “If we choose to look away, there’s no doubt in my mind Yemen will be plunged into a devastating famine within a few short months,” Beasley told the 15-member

GNA spokesman says air strikes launched after Haftar's forces said they were pulling back from Tripoli front lines. The UN-recognised GNA has recorded advances in the west of the country in the past few weeks Libya's internationally recognised government has launched air strikes against forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar after his forces announced they were pulling back from Tripoli front lines. Air strikes by the Government of National Accord (GNA) targeted several locations in the west of the country, including in the Haftar stronghold of Tarhouna near the capital, Tripoli, according to GNA army spokesman Colonel Mohamed Qanunu. In Tarhouna, two military vehicles and a vehicle carrying ammunition that belonged to Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) were destroyed, the spokesman said. On Thursday, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency said the GNA carried out five air operations against forces loyal to Haf

Rockets by Khalifa Haftar's LNA struck port of Tripoli, Mitiga International Airport and coastal road. A view of a damaged site as smoke rises after an attack carried out by fighters loyal to Haftar on a coastal road in Tajura region in Tripoli, Libya At least three people, including a civilian, were killed after rocket attacks by forces loyal to Libyan renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar hit the capital Tripoli and a nearby area, the government said early on Friday. Rockets struck Tripoli port, Mitiga International Airport and a coastal road, said Mustafa al-Mujie, spokesman for the government's  military campaign to combat Haftar's assault on Tripoli, dubbed  Operation Volcano of Rage. Spokesman for the health ministry of Libya's UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), said two security staff and one civilian were killed and four others were injured in the attacks. In a statement, Libyan Foreign Min

COVID-19 is likely to leave 130 million people acutely hungry this year, adding to 135 million already in the category. The number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million due to the economic fallout of COVID-19, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The impact of lost tourism revenues, falling remittances and travel and other restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic is expected to leave about 130 million more people acutely hungry this year, in addition to 135 million already in that category,  the WFP said in a new report  on Tuesday. "COVID-19 is potentially catastrophic for millions who are already hanging by a thread," said Arif Husain, chief economist and director of research, assessment and monitoring at the WFP. "We all need to come together to deal with this because if we don't the cost will be too high - the global cost will be too hig

UN agency says five women and two children killed after 'heavy rains and flooding across northern governorates'. People watch rising floodwaters during heavy rains in the old quarter of the capital, Sanaa This month's flash floods in Yemen have resulted in the death of at least seven people while 85 others have been injured, the United Nations has said. "Heavy rains and flooding across northern governorates, including Marib, in mid-April led to casualties and damaged property and sites for internally displaced persons," the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday.   "Initial information indicated that seven people - five women and two children - were killed in the flooding and another 85 people were injured, including seven who were seriously injured and hospitalised." The rebel-held capital Sanaa and districts in the same governorate "have been badly affected&

Escalating violence, lack of schooling put minors at higher risk of being recruited by armed groups and child marriage. Mopti, Mali  - Djan Diagahate was 12 years old last year when he watched a group of gunmen storm his village in central Mali and burn it to the ground. His home and his school - everything he knew - were destroyed. Since then, he has been living in a small tent made of tarp and twigs at a camp for displaced people in Sevare, some 100km (62 miles) from his home in Ballanguine. Instead of going to school, he spends his days sitting around the Chirifila site with his family and other children displaced by the violence that has engulfed Mali and other sahel countries   in recent years. Diagahate is not alone. An entire generation of children in the country and across the region has fallen years behind their grade level. A surge in attacks and threats against public schools, teachers and students in Central and West A