Republican Congressman Ted Yoho has said that the United States should address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen amid rising tensions with Saudi Arabia, which has launched a war of aggression against the country.
“When you look at the refugees around the world, we’re at an all-time world high of worldwide refugees displaced from their countries. It’s over 70 million people. We haven’t seen these numbers ever before in our history. This is more than World War Two,” Yoho, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Hill.TV on Monday.
“What’s going on in Yemen is adding to that immensely, and then the famine, and then these people don’t have any food,” the Representative for Florida’s 3rd congressional district added.
“This is something that I think we as a world population need to look at this and see what each country can do to alleviate this kind of conflict, and then, more importantly, bring it to a solution, so these people…