Famine in Yemen: long announced, now on our screens
(WorldNews Africa)

What are world leaders doing? Where is the `international community´ Yemenis so often appeal to? A boy receives treatment at al-Sabaeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 24, 2018. Mohammed Mohammed/ Press Association. All rights reserved. Almost two years after the UN first told the world that the war in Yemen was about to cause famine, we are informed that 14 million are at risk of dying from starvation and that the earlier figure of 8 million was an underestimate. The increase is explained by the dramatic collapse of the Yemeni riyal in the last two months. Wasn´t such a currency crisis predictable? The country is still described as being `on the brink´ of famine, simply because statistical...