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UNICEF: 71,000 children displaced in Yemen in three weeks as malnutrition soars

UNICEF's Yemen chief told a Geneva briefing on Friday that 71,000 children are among nearly 130,000 people displaced in three weeks, with acute child malnutrition visibly rising as fighting disrupts healthcare.

By Sarah Whitfield · · 1 min read

Around 71,000 children have been forced from their homes in Yemen over the past three weeks as fighting intensifies, UNICEF said on Friday, warning that hunger and displacement are placing children at increasing risk, Reuters reports.

UNICEF’s country representative in Yemen, Akhil Iyer, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Aden that the children are among nearly 130,000 people displaced in the period, Al Jazeera reports, most uprooted from or within the southwestern governorate of Taiz. “Conflict drives hunger, and hunger makes children more vulnerable to conflict,” Iyer said.

More than a quarter of the nearly 2,900 children screened in recent weeks by UNICEF mobile nutrition teams in accessible areas were acutely malnourished, with 200 classed as severe — the worst category. UNICEF said this was only a snapshot: 2.2 million children under five are projected to be acutely malnourished in Yemen this year, with more than half a million projected to suffer severe acute malnutrition.

Iyer also said UNICEF had verified that at least 15 children were killed and 14 injured in the conflict since early September, with three more reported missing. Yemen’s civil war has sharply escalated after being largely frozen in a 2022 truce, with the Houthis seizing the strategic port city of Mocha and almost the entire Red Sea coast in recent weeks.

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