Yemen famine feared as starving children fight for lives in hospital

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

Dozens of emaciated children are fighting for their lives in Yemen’s hospital wards, as fears grow that civil war and a sea blockade that has lasted for months are creating famine conditions in the Arabian peninsula’s poorest country.
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More than half of Yemen’s 28 million people are already short of food, the UN has said, and children are particularly badly hit, with hundreds of thousands at risk of starvation.

There are 370,000 children enduring severe malnutrition that weakens their immune system, according to Unicef, and 1.5 million are going hungry. Food shortages are a long-term problem, but they have got worse in recent months. Half of children under five are stunted because of chronic malnutrition.

A sea blockade on rebel-held areas enforced by the Saudi-coalition supporting the president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, stops shipments reaching most ports.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/04/yemen-famine-feared-as-starving-children-fight-for-lives-in-hospital

[cpwm17]

1. Fully supported by the US against a people that are no threat to us.

[Javaman]

8. +1 nt

[jamzrockz]

2. Yet again

The UN is silent on this, seems like there are no Al Qaeda rebels in the country that needs food. Next time you hear the media or UN shed crocodile tears for people of Aleppo, just remember that these silent on this human suffering. And probably now probably readying congratulatory articles for when the siege finally words in Yemen and the Yemeni local warriors(aka flip flop warraiors) not foreign terrorists are defeated.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. "the UN has said", "according to Unicef" - it's in the OP

Even if you didn't bother clicking on the link, to find "UN warns", and "The UN’s humanitarian aid chief, Stephen O’Brien, described a visit", it's in 2 of the 4 paragraphs of the OP.

[jamzrockz]

4. My mistake

I should have said paying lip service instead of silence. The pictures of suffering Yemeni kids are all over the internet so the are forced to say something even if it means no actions will be taken until the siege works the ways sieges are supposed to work.

Look the treatment UN gives Aleppo city vs Yemen the country. Aleppo is the portion of the big city that was taken hostage by foreign fighters backed by foreign govts, where the locals have give them a safe passage out of the city to Yemen where local fighters are besieged by foreign powers who are trying to achieve another useless regime change.

And who do they want to put in power? the president who won his last presidential election with a 99.80% of the vote count. Yes, a man who gets more votes than Saddam Hussein.

You can't make this shit up

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. You think Saleh, the guy in charge of North Yemen/Yemen from 1978 to 2012

and thrown out in an uprising, is better?

Technically, it's the Houthi who are trying to complete their regime change, to throw out anyone loyal to Hadi. Who got all the votes in the election because no one else stood, and everyone seemed to agree it was the best solution on how to push Saleh out.

There isn't a 'good' side in the Yemeni civil war.

[jamzrockz]

6. Yes, whoever the

people of Yemen pick is better than Hadi. I think its high time outsiders stop interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. Stop with the "there isn't no Good side" line we use to smear every nation that is not the west. The Houtis are the good guys in this scenario. If the Houtis are able to swiftly topple the govt even as it had strong military and economic support from the US and Saudi, then it wasn't a legitimate govt in the first place.

In a country where the elections are so rigged that the president got 99.80% of the vote, the only way to remove it is via and internal, locally fought regime change. And please don't come back with Iran supported them. They were able to do achieve their revolution mainly from within but now the US and the GCC nations are trying to take it away.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. "The Houtis are the good guys in this scenario" - why?

They started a civil war. They're just one faction. That doesn't make them automatically good guys. As I said, the election was not 'rigged' - no one else stood, and the world, from Cuba to the USA, via China, Russia, the UN and many more, say that was good. Hadi really was the person "the people of Yemen" picked, though he might not be now. The Houthis are allied with Saleh, who was chucked out by general consent in favour of Hadi, and is thought to have embezzled billions during his time in charge. Those billions are what was 'within'.