Tag: Yemen Descends into Total Collapse

NOVANEWS More than 17 million people are facing dire food shortages in Yemen, as Oman seeks to mediate a peace deal By Middle East Eye Middle East Eye   Yemen is descending into total collapse, its people facing war, famine and a deadly outbreak of cholera, as the world watches, the UN aid chief said on Tuesday. Speaking to the UN Security Council, Stephen O’Brien said “the time is now” to end the world’s largest food emergency and put Yemen back on the path to survival. “Crisis is not coming, it is not looming, it is here today – on our watch and ordinary people are paying the price,” said O’Brien, the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs. “The people of Yemen are being subjected to deprivation, disease and death as the world watches.” The crisis is spiraling ...