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Escalating fighting in Yemen deepens food security crisis

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Escalating fighting in Yemen deepens food security crisis. Additional details were not included in the source data received by Planet Briefing.

Penny Mordaunt announced urgent new food and fuel supplies to help keep millions of Yemeni people alive as an escalation in fighting and restrictions on aid access threaten to push Yemen into a catastrophic famine. During her visit to Djibouti on 17 December 2017, she heard harrowing stories from Yemenis who have escaped the crisis and aid workers who have been delivering life-saving food, water and medical support.
Illustrative image: Penny Mordaunt announced urgent new food and fuel supplies to help keep millions of Yemeni people alive as an escalation in fighting and restrictions on aid access threaten to push Yemen into a catastrophic famine. During her visit to Djibouti on 17 December 2017, she heard harrowing stories from Yemenis who have escaped the crisis and aid workers who have been delivering life-saving food, water and medical support. — Benet Coulber/DFID - DFID - UK Department for International Development/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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