{"id":5674,"date":"2018-04-04T12:58:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5674-yemen-the-world-s-worst-humanitarian-crisis-says-un-chief\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T12:58:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:58:49","slug":"yemen-the-world-s-worst-humanitarian-crisis-says-un-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5674-yemen-the-world-s-worst-humanitarian-crisis-says-un-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis, says UN chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Yemen is now the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 22 million people \u2014 three-quarters of the population \u2014 in desperate need of aid and protection,United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The war in Yemen is now the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 22 million people \u2014 three-quarters of the population \u2014 in desperate need of aid and protection,United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said.<\/h4>\n<h4>As the conflict enters its fourth year, millions are without access to clean drinking water and the country is at high risk of a cholera epidemic, Guterre said at a donor conference in Geneva on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n<h4>He said over 8 million people in the country &#8220;did not know where they will obtain their next meal,&#8221; and that &#8220;every ten minutes, a child under five dies of preventable causes.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>With many struggling to support their families, child marriage rates have also risen. &#8220;Nearly two-thirds of girls are married before the age of 18, and many before they are 15,&#8221; said Guterres.<\/h4>\n<h4>More than half of the required funds needed for the UN&#8217;s humanitarian response plan \u2014 $2.96 billion \u2014 have not been met, Guterres told the conference.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Yemen is now the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 22 million people \u2014 three-quarters of the population \u2014 in desperate need of aid and protection,United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said. \u00a0 The war in Yemen is now the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 22 million people \u2014 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16670,"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":[38,172,338,68],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-nations","tag-war","tag-yemen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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