Nadia Mayen
Al Arabiya News
December 17, 2012
For decades Yemen has suffered critical food shortage affecting nearly half the country’s population of 25 million, including hundreds of thousands of children.
A popular uprising against a decades-old dictatorship and the consequent instability further damaged the country’s already poor infrastructure and weakened the government’s ability to provide basic services to the poor.
About 60 percent of Yemeni children were chronically malnourished and about 15 percent – [...]
