'Truly desperate' humanitarian crisis in Yemen will get worse, warns WFP

The "truly desperate" humanitarian crisis in Yemen is only going to get worse as a result of the renewed conflict, the World Food Programme has warned. “Yemen was already one of the top concerns as hunger hot spots in the world, which means that people in Yemen were already hungry, they were reliant on imported food or humanitarian assistance,” said Samantha Chattaraj, World Food Programme deputy country director for Yemen, speaking to Al-Jazeera. “Now that we have lost access to over 800,000 people who were reliant on our assistance until last month, the situation is going to get even more catastrophic." “I think we are at a very critical juncture. If we do not restore the right operating environment and facilitate access to bring back assistance to them, we are going from hunger to starvation."