Yemen crisis: 85,000 children 'dead from malnutrition'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity says.

The number is equivalent to the entire under-five population in the UK's second largest city of Birmingham, Save the Children adds.
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Save the Children says it based its figures on mortality rates for untreated cases of Severe Acute Malnutrition in children under five from data compiled by the UN. According to conservative estimates, it calculated that around 84,700 children may have died between April 2015 and October 2018.
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The charity says that based on historical studies, if acute malnutrition is left untreated, around 20-30% of children will die each year.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46261983

[watoos]

1. This is so damn disgusting.

I mean the United is backing a blockade that is stopping food from getting to starving people because of Saudi Arabia and yes, Israel.

It's so bad, it's not even about, "I was hungry and you did not feed me," it's worse, I was hungry and you took away my food.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone stuff yourself with turkey.

[Martin Eden]

2. Explain to me how our support for the war in Yemen ...

... is good for our national security.

Are we winning hearts and minds?

[Amimnoch]

3. A shameful crisis that is more spread than people would like to believe.

For those of us living in North America, Europe, a large part of Asia, and Austrailia, it’s not even something that can be conceived.

In 2014, for work, I spent about 6 months in Malabo, Equatoral Guinea. A morning that still haunts my thoughts was sitting in the break room with a group of the local employees discussing family. One by one they would each talk of their children. Many of them being in their early 20’s, I was shocked at how many children each of them had.. some as few as 4 others had 8-9 children. Now keep in mind, working for this company, these were not among the poorest of the population, but some of the better off. I still recall how warm it was for me hearing about these large families, until I inquired as to why they chose to have such large families so young.. the answer chills me to the bone to this day.. their answer was so simple, and stated so matter of factly, and without emotion that they have so many children with the hopes that 1 or 2 of them would become adults to take care of them when they got older.

I couldn’t even conceive of having a child with the expectation that child wouln’t see living to become an adult. That, in this day, there’s still large parts of the world where the assumption of child mortality is still more the rule than the rare exception is just so damn disgusting.

[watoos]

6. We aren't ranked very well in infant mortality rate in the U.S.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

4. Saudi Arabia has to be held accountable

Many more children will die if we do nothing and continue to supply weapons to MBS. Hopefully a democratic house will be able to stop this atrocity somehow with the help of our European allies.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Too bad our great "pro-life" organizations' funds are only used to protect the unborn.

Living children are just being taken to gawd, so no problem.

[watoos]

7. There is food from organizations

waiting to get into Yemen but there is a blockade supported by the United States.

[Xolodno]

8. We're creating another "Afghanistan" n/t

[dalton99a]

9. Mohammed bin Salman should be charged with war crimes.