Conflict, rising food prices and plummeting incomes in Yemen are forcing people to resort to desperate measures to stave off hunger. One family married off their three-year-old child to buy food and shelter.
Oxfam is warning of catastrophic repercussions for people in Yemen if the Saudi and Emirati led coalition, and aligned forces, continue to push for control of the main route linking the port city of Hudaydah to Sana’a.
Conditions for over half a million people in Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah are steadily deteriorating with food in short supply and seriously damaged water and sewage systems increasing the risk of cholera.