ICRC: Pockets of Famine-Like Conditions Return to Yemen

Yemenis fill their jerrycans with water at a makeshift camp for the internally displaced, in the northern Hajjah province on June 4, 2022 amid severe heatwave and acute water shortage. (Photo by ESSA AHMED / AFP)

Pockets of famine-like conditions have returned to Yemen for the first time in two years in three Houthi-controlled governorates, an international report has revealed.

There are nearly 50,000 people living in famine-like conditions in Hajjah, Amran, and al-Jawf, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) showed in a report this month.