More than 80,000 Yemeni children may have died from hunger - humanitarian body

A woman holds her malnourished boy at a therapeutic feeding centre in the northern Yemeni city of Amran June 27, 2012. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

DUBAI/ADEN (Reuters) - An estimated 85,000 children under five may have died from extreme hunger in Yemen since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the civil war in 2015, a humanitarian body said on Wednesday, as the U.N. special envoy arrived in Yemen to pursue peace talks.

Western countries are pressing for a ceasefire and renewed peace efforts to end the disastrous conflict, which has unleashed the world’s most urgent humanitarian crisis with 8.4 million people believed to be on the verge of starvation.