As the world mobilizes to aid Ukrainian refugees, and as food and fuel prices soar, humanitarian groups warn that the 'world's worst humanitarian crisis' in Yemen stands to get much worse.
An estimated 23.4 million people — about three in four people in Yemen — need assistance, and a growing number of them are coping with emergency levels of hunger, per theThe protracted crisis was already worsening prior to Russia's invasion in mid-February, says Yasmin Faruki, a senior policy adviser with Mercy Corps who recently returned from a trip to Yemen.to reduce food rations for 8 million people in Yemen at the beginning of the year.
Yemenis are "completely dependent on international assistance," Faruki explains, creating a "multiyear Band-Aid approach in which you can't really have sustainable infrastructure solutions.", but the war in Ukraine has had major effects on supply as well. "We are doing more with less, and ... we're going in the direction of just having to do less with less," says Faruki.
The country relies almost entirely on food imports, with 30% of its wheat coming from Ukraine, per theAt the same time, as the world turns its attention to the crisis in Ukraine, aid groups are facing funding shortfalls for their efforts in places like Yemen at levels not seen before. The UN last month
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