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Amid escalating warnings of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe, a recent UN report has listed Yemen among the four countries suffering the most severe food crises globally in 2024, alongside Sudan, Mali, and the Gaza Strip, warning of “catastrophic hunger” threatening the lives of millions.
The 2025 Global Report on Food Crises, issued by a coalition of UN agencies and international organizations, revealed that around 17 million Yemenis—nearly 48% of the total population—faced severe food insecurity between late 2024 and early 2025.
The report attributes this dire deterioration to a combination of factors, most notably the ongoing war, economic collapse, rising food prices, and the growing impacts of climate change.
Violent floods in March and August of last year—caused by unprecedented rainfall—destroyed more than 240,000 acres of agricultural land and affected hundreds of thousands of people, amid widespread deterioration in healthcare services and the spread of disease.
The report paints a bleak global picture, confirming that more than 295 million people across 53 countries faced dangerous levels of acute hunger over the past year. This comes as poverty and malnutrition rates continue to rise for the sixth consecutive year, driven by overlapping climate, political, and economic crises.
