According to the recent data released by UNICEF, there are over 2,300 cholera-associated deaths across Yemen in over 13 months.
The already “staggering” number of 8.4 million Yemenis who don’t know where their next meal will come from could double very quickly if ports in the rebel-held north are attacked and shut down, the head of the aid agency Oxfam America said Tuesday.
Abby Maxman, who spent a week in northern Yemen earlier this month, said in an interview with The Associated Press that the country is already “on the brink of starvation or ultimately famine, and the tipping point for that could happen very quickly.”
The UN also said that there are 22 million people in Yemen who are in need of humanitarian assistance, with more than 8 million facing starvation.