THREE IN 4 HOUSEHOLDS IN YEMEN FACE HUNGER, WFP WARNS

Mon 12 October 2026:

Three in four households in Yemen are unable to put food on the table as fighting intensifies in the country, the World Food Programme (WFP) warns.

“Recent WFP monitoring in accessible areas found that 74 percent of households are unable to meet their basic food needs,” the UN agency said in a post on X.

“This is a record number for this year and indicates food security is significantly deteriorating,” it added.

More than 200,000 people have been displaced from their homes since the war has escalated in recent weeks, according to data from the International Organization for Migration.

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Majority of displaced people in Yemen are women and children, IOM says

More than 213,000 people have fled their homes in Yemen since hostilities escalated in September, according to Abdusattor Esoev, the chief of mission for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Yemen.

He told Al Jazeera that some 60 percent of those displaced are women and children.

“The situation has been quite alarming,” Esoev said from Aden.

The pace of displacement has accelerated sharply. Just more than two weeks ago, the figure stood at about 75,000, he said, and it continues to climb daily as the situation evolves.

Most of the displaced are arriving from Taiz, and roughly 10 governorates across Yemen are now hosting them. People are frightened and “looking for safety”, Esoev said.

Many are sheltering in open areas where their safety is difficult to guarantee, he added, and food remains a pressing need.

Humanitarian crisis ‘sharply worsens’ as fighting displaces over 200,000: UN

Yemen’s humanitarian crisis has “sharply worsened” amid renewed fighting that has displaced more than 200,000 people since early August, a senior UN humanitarian official warned Friday.

Mohamed Yahya, assistant secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and deputy emergency relief coordinator, delivered the warning during a UN Security Council briefing on behalf of UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher.

“Today, I must warn the Council that Yemen’s humanitarian crisis has sharply worsened. Further inaction will cost lives,” Yahya said.

He said escalating fighting over the past two months had forced families already exhausted by more than a decade of conflict to flee their homes.

Many displaced families had depleted their savings, lost livelihoods and had few options for safety, he added.

According to Yahya, more than 200,000 people have been displaced across Yemen since early August, the highest level of new displacement since the 2022 truce.

Nearly 4,000 others have crossed the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to seek safety in Djibouti and Somalia, he said.

Yahya warned that women and children were “paying the highest price” as the conflict intensified.

He cited figures from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights showing that at least 46 civilians had been killed and more than 130 injured since early August.

Yemen’s health system was being pushed “closer to collapse” as conflict-related casualties placed additional pressure on overstretched facilities, he said.

Yahya warned that inadequate resources would deepen the crisis, make recovery more difficult and costly, and leave vulnerable families less able to withstand future shocks.

Children at ‘disproportionate risk’

Yahya stressed that a political solution was essential to preventing further suffering.

“Further fighting will have severe humanitarian consequences. It will displace more people and further restrict humanitarian access,” he said.

“The people of Yemen need more than our concern and our outrage. They need our collective action, our concrete support, and our unwavering commitment to deliver.”

Inger Ashing, chief executive officer of Save the Children International, also addressed the Security Council, warning that the escalation threatened children’s safety, education and well-being.

For too many children in Yemen, conflict had turned education from a pathway to opportunity into a refuge from danger, she said.

“Yemen is a country of tremendous vibrance and hope. This latest escalation risks reversing its fragile recovery,” Ashing said.

She warned that the country faced a “deadly convergence” of conflict, displacement, economic decline and a surge in infectious and waterborne diseases.

Ashing said children were at “disproportionate risk” from explosive weapons.

“Without urgent action, more children will be pushed deeper into hardship, with lasting consequences for their survival, learning, and protection,” she said.

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