REFILE - Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, speaks during a news conference discussing the latest challenges the agency is facing in Yemen, in ?Amman, Jordan, March 13, 2017. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
AMMAN (Reuters) - Aid workers are in a "race against time" to prevent famine threatening millions of people in Yemen, a senior U.N. official said in Monday.
“We have about three months of food stored inside the country today," Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the World Food Programme, told reporters in Amman after a three-day visit to the wartorn country.
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