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More Than a Third of Yemenis 'Face Starvation'
UN report highlights Yemen’s worsening famine.
The United Nations has warned that more than a third of Yemen's population now face starvation. The country has been engaged in a military conflict between the Saudi-backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and Iran-backed Houthi rebels since 2011.
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(Photo: A dead cow lies beside the main road leading out of the port town of Al Hudaydah, Yemen. Credit: Giles Clarke/UN OCHA/Getty Images)
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