Syria/Yemen: Years of Fighting in Middle East Has Devastated Food Security, Says UN

Jul 31, 2020 | Gerald Butt, Church Times
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More than 22 million people in Yemen and Syria are “in crisis or worse” in terms of food security, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). In its 2020 Global Report on Food Crises, it says that 6.6 million of these are in Syria, and 16 million are in Yemen. Although violence abated in the critical port city of Hodeida, on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, after an agreement in 2018, the report says that “conflict increased in other areas and fighting continued across 10 out of 22 governorates. The protracted conflict continued to severely disrupt economic activity, damage infrastructure, destroy public services and restrict access to markets and services.”