Norwegian Council of Refugees warns of biggest food crisis in Yemen

Yemen’s President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi praised the positions adopted by the Emirati government to support the legitimate government of Yemen in the framework of the role performed by the Arab Coalition to eliminate the insurgency. This came in the cable of condolences President Hadi sent to his Emirati counterpart Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for the death of a member of the UAE Armed Forces General Command, who participated in the military operations witnessed in Yemen.
He added, “Such heroic positions will remain present in the memory and memory of all Yemeni people.” He expressed his deepest condolences to his brother the President of the United Arab Emirates and to the UAE people in addition to the families and relatives of the martyr. The UAE Armed Forces General Command announced in a statement on Tuesday that an Emirati soldier was killed in coalition forces Arab support for legitimacy in Yemen.
The UAE, represented by the UAE Red Crescent, provides humanitarian and developmental support to the Yemeni provinces in various fields and continues to support relief in Yemen's most affected areas.
Norwegian Council of Refugees warned that food imports in Yemen have reached their lowest levels as the conflict continues in the country, which according to the UN humanitarian agency is facing "the biggest food security crisis in the world due to the worsening humanitarian situation in Yemen and the expansion of poverty.
Jan Egeland, the current head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, condemned “this gigantic failure of international diplomacy” and said that only 3 million people out of the 7 million people who were starving had been fed last month.
“Men with guns and power inside Yemen as well as in regional and international capitals are undermining every effort to avert an entirely preventable famine,” he said, “as well as the collapse of health and education services for millions of children.”
The secretary general of the NRC is on a five-day visit to the country. “I am shocked to my bones by what I have seen and heard here in war- and hunger-stricken Yemen. The world is letting some 7 million men, women and children slowly but surely be engulfed by unprecedented famine. It is not a drought that is at fault. This preventable catastrophe is man-made from A to Z.”
Egeland said he met teachers, health workers and engineers who had not been paid for eight months and were struggling to survive. 
He said: “An aid worker told me the fear and desperation among civilians is now so great that mothers with acutely undernourished children grab their kids from hospital beds when they hear the war planes flying over.”
Egeland appealed to the parties of the conflict to agree a ceasefire and to keep the the main humanitarian supply route, the port of Hodeida, open. There have been warnings of an attack on the port by the Saudi-led coalition. He said: “Nowhere on Earth are as many lives at risk. We are not even sure that the main humanitarian lifeline through the port of Hodeida will be kept open.”