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On 5 November 2019 at the Zam Zam IDP camp, in El-Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan, Nafisa Ali Abdullah (left), Health Awareness Counsellor, shows Zainab Ahmed Khamiz how to feed Plumpy'Nut to her 11-month-old daughter Maria who suffers from malnutrition.

24 September 2022

Over half a billion dollars pledged to tackle severe wasting since July in unprecedented international response to deepening child malnutrition crisis

At least 60 per cent of commitments will directly support UNICEF’s work in 15 countries hardest hit by the food and nutrition crisis

Internally Displaced People fill containers with water

4 things you need to know about water and famine

Millions of children are facing the deadly effects of drought, including acute hunger, malnutrition and thirst

Malnutrition

Yemen: acute hunger at unprecedented levels as funding dries up

Eman Hameed Ahmed Al Rahmy suffers from malnutrition. She came with her father to Al Theebah Health Center, Mabyan district, Hajjah governorate, Yemen, in November 2021.

YEMEN: Food Security and Nutrition Snapshot

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Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Malnutrition report in Yemen

13 February 2021

Acute malnutrition threatens half of children under five in Yemen in 2021: UN

Humanitarian crisis continues to exert a terrible toll on children, warn FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO

Baby in an incubator

23 November 2020

Millions of children’s lives at high risk as Yemen inches towards famine

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

A child standing in a camp

#IfNotInSchool

The paths children cross in Yemen

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Food security survey shows 10 million Yemenis still struggle for food