Half of Yemen’s under-fives acutely malnourished: UN

GENEVA: One in two children aged under five in Yemen are acutely malnourished, the United Nations said on Tuesday, with more than half a million of them suffering from potentially deadly wasting.

The UN children’s agency Unicef warned that a decade of conflict in Yemen had stolen childhoods and left an entire generation fighting to survive, even as the humanitarian crisis is escalating.

“One in two children under five are acutely malnourished,” Unicef’s Yemen representative Peter Hawkins told a press briefing in Geneva...