BBC: Yemen crisis: 85,000 children 'dead from malnutrition'
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.
The UN warned last month that up to 14m Yemenis are on the brink of famine.
It is trying to revive talks to end a three-year war which has caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Yemen has been devastated by the conflict. Fighting escalated in 2015 when a Saudi-led coalition launched an air campaign against the Houthi rebel movement which had forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad.
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Update #1: Aid group: 85,000 children may have died of hunger in Yemen (AP)
Update #2: 85,000 children under 5 may have died of starvation in Yemen war (CNN)
WNU Editor: Even though both sides are talking about a truce to alleviate the suffering, the war is only intensifying .... Yemen: Hodeidah sees 'worst fighting yet' despite UN ceasefire calls (The Guardian).
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Nearly 2 million children living under poverty line in the U.S. who knows how many in Canada...... Gay marriage and crying natives is all you get on Canadian news. So why should anyone care with what’s going on in Yemen? Diversion diversion diversion.
I'm just surprised that cnn is not blaming it all on trump yet. Usually they're so fast and reliable at that blame game.
Let them blame Trump.
Remember when Obama claimed Yemen as a foreign policy success?
This is what liberal success looks like.
This is also what end game Islam looks like.
The Obama administration, which just earlier this week was touting its "Yemen model" as a success in counterterrorism strategy, has not been eager to own up to the country's disintegration.
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-us-public-message-on-yemen-is-in.html
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