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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Yemen on Brink of Famine Due to Grain Shortage

Yemenis fill their jerrycans with water from a well at a makeshift camp for people who fled the conflict, in the village of Hays in Yemen's western province of Hodeidah, on May 17, 2022. (AFP)

For the first time in years since the Houthi coup, major commercial suppliers have sounded the alarm in Yemen, warning of an imminent famine in the country as a result of the rise in global wheat prices and diminishing stocks.

The Hayel Saeed Anam (HSA) Group, Yemen's largest company and leading wheat importer, issued a stark warning of impending mass famine as a result of unprecedented disruption to global wheat supplies generated by the fallout from the conflict in Ukraine.

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