Malnourished babies lie in hospital beds at Hodeida, Yemen, October 4, 2022.
The scene is sadly familiar in Yemen, an emaciated infant body lies motionless on a hospital bed, struggling to breathe. The 16-month-old little girl is fighting starvation, bearing the brunt of a war that has raged in her country for eight years. She is also one of the youngest victims of a worldwide food crisis.
For years, deadly hunger has been an everyday threat for hundreds of thousands of Yemen's children. And as the war threatens to escalate between the country's Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led coalition after months of a tenuous truce, there are fears that it could get even worse.
The U.N. estimates that 500,000 children are in a similar dangerous state, known as severe acute malnutrition, as Hafsa Ahmed, the 16-month-old whose body is covered with sores, with barely enough strength to open her eyes.
The crisis has been brought on by the country's civil war but also food shortages due to the conflict in Ukraine, from where Yemen formerly sourced 40% of its wheat, according to the International Monetary Fund. A recent study by the fund found that food prices have risen 58% since the start of the year. (AFP)
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