Women wait to receive supplemental nutrition shakes, at malnutrition treatment ward of al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen February 24, 2021. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock urged Gulf states to step up next Monday when the world body seeks to avert a large-scale "man-made" famine in Yemen by raising $3.85 billion for humanitarian operations in the war-torn Arabian Peninsula country for 2021.
The United Nations describes Yemen as the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with 80% of the people in need. Lowcock warned that if the world body does not receive the money it needs at a virtual pledging conference on Monday "we're going to see is the worst famine the world has seen for decades."
