A Yemeni girl who suffers from chronic malnutrition, is fed by her mother at a hospital in Saada province, northwest of Sanaa, Yemen. October 2016. Hani Mohammed/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.
As people in Europe get ready for their end of year celebrations, including much over-eating and partying, more than 20 million Yemenis are getting ready to face the next disaster coming their way: mass starvation.
The acute shortage of basic staples, wheat and rice, as well as other basics of Yemeni diet, such as cooking oil, tea and sugar is about to get much worse. Other than some locally produced wheat (less than 10 percent of actual consumption) and other staples like sorghum and maize, the population, rural and urban alike, depends on imports for their very survival.
