UN to cut food aid to Yemen amid funding shortfall

The World Food Programme has said it has been “forced” to cut aid to Yemen due to a lack of funds and warned there will be a surge in hunger in the war-torn country in the coming months.

Nearly eight years of fighting between Saudi-backed government forces and Houthi rebels in Yemen has created what the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The violence is projected to kill 377,000 people by the end of the year, according to the UN Development Programme.