Yemeni children starve as food and fuel prices soar

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A Yemeni motorcyclist holds a fuel bottle after buying it from a petrol station amid fuel shortages in the capital Sanaa, on September 17, 2018. Saudi Arabia and its allies intervened in 2015 in the conflict between embattled Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, whose government is recognised by the United Nations, and the Huthis and nearly 10,000 people have since been killed and the country now stands on the brink of famine. / AFP PHOTO / Mohammed HUWAIS

More than five million children risk famine in war-torn Yemen as food and fuel prices soar, Save the Children said Wednesday, warning an entire generation may face death and “starvation on an unprecedented scale”.

The three-year conflict between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and Huthi rebels linked to Iran has pushed the already…



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