{"id":1364,"date":"2015-08-15T07:45:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T07:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/1364-amid-food-crisis-in-yemen-un-expert-warns-of-deliberate-starvation-of-civilians\/"},"modified":"2015-08-15T07:45:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T07:45:01","slug":"amid-food-crisis-in-yemen-un-expert-warns-of-deliberate-starvation-of-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/1364-amid-food-crisis-in-yemen-un-expert-warns-of-deliberate-starvation-of-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid food crisis in Yemen, UN expert warns of deliberate starvation of civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><span style=\"font-size: 9.11999988555908px; line-height: 11.8559999465942px;\">the country now finds itself in the midst of a major food crisis\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9.11999988555908px; line-height: 11.8559999465942px;\">a United Nations expert said today<\/span><\/address>\n<p> <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>As Yemen plunges deeper into conflict, which has left millions in need of humanitarian aid and wrecked healthcare systems, the country now finds itself in the midst of a major food crisis, a United Nations expert said today as she expressed concern over possibly deliberate starvation of civilians.<\/h4>\n<h4>HilalElver, the UN Special Envoy on the right to food said the situation facing children in the country is particularly alarming with reports suggesting that 850,000 of them face acute malnutrition \u2013 a figure that is expected to rise to 1.2 million over the coming weeks, if the conflict persists as its present level.<\/h4>\n<h4>The UN expert explained that in a country that relies on imports for 80 per cent of its food intake, current restrictions have resulted in steep price hikes, which, combined with increases in the price of diesel by some 47 per cent, are having a \u201cdevastating impact\u201d on food security.<\/h4>\n<h4>In addition, she said that both \u201can immediate and unconditional\u201d humanitarian pause in hostilities and a boost in relief funding would be needed to prevent \u201ca deepening national catastrophe in Yemen.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the country now finds itself in the midst of a major food crisis\u00a0a United Nations expert said today \u00a0 As Yemen plunges deeper into conflict, which has left millions in need of humanitarian aid and wrecked healthcare systems, the country now finds itself in the midst of a major food crisis, a United Nations expert &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-yemen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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