Yemen suffers from worst hunger in 100 years UN alarms

Yemen could face the worst hunger suffering in the past 100 years if the air strikes led by the Saudi coalition do not stop, the UN warns.

If the war continues, hunger can devour the country in the next three months, with 12 to 13 million civilians in danger of dying from such a situation, according to Lise Grande, the agency's co-ordinator for Yemen.

She told the BBC: “I don't think many of us had believed that in the 21st century, we could see something similar to what we saw in Ethiopia, or in Bengal, or in some parts of the Soviet Union. ”

Many of us have the conviction that this could never happen again, but the reality is that in Yemen we're seeing exactly something like this. ”

Yemen has been involved in a bloody civil war for three years after Iran-backed Houthi rebels took a large part of the country under rule, including the capital, Sanaão. The Saudi-led coalition, translated Periscopi, has been fighting rebels since 2015 in support of an internationally recognised government. /Periscopi