This article talks about the hunger in Yemen and what two Yemeni have to say about the calamity in their country of Yemen. All 28,723,951 Yemeni people are at risk of famine or are in famine. The reason for this hunger and starvation is the Yemeni War. The Yemeni War began in 2015 but can be dated back to 2004. Yemen is the sixth hungriest country in the world but only makes up .42% of the people in the entire world who are hungry. This lack of food and water has caused cholera and malnutrition. Cholera is often caused by contaminated water. Malnutrition is the lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat. 3.3 million of the Yemeni people are malnourished and 2.1 million of those are children. There has been 10,000 deaths in the country due to this crisis, yet we hear nothing about it. The war is so severe that people are either dying from bombing or from hunger. The rebels, whom the Yemeni are fighting, are destroying all the Yemeni’s property so even if there is food available to them, they can’t even afford it. Hunger is a problem that affects the whole world. There is more we need to do.
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