WHO reveals magnitude of humanitarian disaster in Yemen

SANAA, Feb. 27 (YPA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday revealed by numbers the size of the humanitarian disaster suffered by the Yemeni people as a result of the four-year-old war.

“The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is the worst in the world,” the organization said.

The organization indicated that over 24 million people in Yemen (about 75 percent of the total population) need humanitarian assistance and protection, including more than 14 million people in dire need of such assistance.

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