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Escalating fighting in Yemen worsens food security crisis

France 2411 October 2026, 06:34 UTCYemen

Aid agencies in Yemen highlighted the growing hunger emergency sparked by renewed fighting between Houthi opposition forces and Government troops, after mobile health clinics reported that hundreds of children displaced by the violence are suffering from the most deadly form of malnutrition.

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