SANAA: According to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), 21 million people in war-torn Yemen, or nearly 70% of the total population, require life-saving humanitarian assistance.

"This includes 11.3 million children, or nearly 80% of children," the UN said in a tweet on Monday. The  humanitarian organization said, nearly 400,000 children under the age of five in the country are progressing from acute malnutrition to severe acute malnutrition.

Yemen, according to UNICEF, is still one of the world's most serious humanitarian crises.Tens of thousands of people have been killed, 4 million have been displaced, and the country is on the verge of famine since the civil war erupted in March 2015.The Unicef said it needs USD 484.4 million to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen in 2022.

The war began when the Iran-backed Houthi militia took control of several northern provinces and drove President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's Saudi-backed Yemeni government out of the capital Sanaa.

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