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Conflict, hunger and the suffering of women in Yemen

14 March, 2010 - 06:05

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Yemen is a country where one in three people are chronically hungry. While the U.S. sent $150 million in military aid recently to Yemen, food programs there are being cut because of lack of funding. My interview with Jennifer Mizgata of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) shows the tragedy unfolding.

Abeer Etefa, a WFP officer from Cairo, just traveled to Yemen to visit camps that are home to people displaced by the fighting in the northern part of the country. What she saw was tremendous hardship being faced by many Yemenis who depend on WFP food rations. These rations are being reduced right now and may soon be stopped entirely if the international community[...]

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