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麻豆社 Minute: On the war in Yemen - Starvation

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麻豆社 Minute talks to 麻豆社 correspondent Nawal al-Maghafi about a conflict largely forgotten by the outside world: Yemen. The United Nations says the war which has raged since March 2015 has killed more than five thousand civilians, displaced more than three million people, and left more than seven million on the brink of famine. In this part of our series, we talk to Nawal about the serious food shortages which are a direct result of what Mohammad Ali-Alnsour, the head of the United Nations Human Rights Middle East and North Africa office, calls an 鈥渆ntirely man-made catastrophe鈥�. As well as widespread malnourishment and starvation, the UN says more than 14 million people in Yemen are without consistent access to clean water and sanitation. Photo: A malnourished baby waiting to be weighed at a clinic on the outskirts of Sana'a, January 2017, Credit: Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images.

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