Famine Looms In Yemen

Vijay Prashad, Asia Times: Yemen remains on precipice of large-scale famine

Last Friday, Martin Griffiths, the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, briefed the UN Security Council about the talks that had just concluded in Sweden the previous day. Griffiths, sitting before a large UN logo from Jordan, spoke by video to a Council that had not been able to move an effective agenda to end the brutal war on this impoverished country.

Griffiths, who worked on each failed UN effort on Syria over the past decade, had been appointed to this post only in February, just after Mauritania’s Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed opted out of the impossible job that he had held from April 2015 to February 2018.

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WNU Editor: I am also not optimistic that a peaceful solution to end the war in Yemen will be found. Both sides are committed to wining the war on their terms, famine or no famine.