{"id":381350,"date":"2018-10-17T15:03:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/amid-furor-over-khashoggi-murder-un-warns-millions-more-face-starvation-in-yemen\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:03:33","slug":"amid-furor-over-khashoggi-murder-un-warns-millions-more-face-starvation-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/amid-furor-over-khashoggi-murder-un-warns-millions-more-face-starvation-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid furor over Khashoggi murder, UN warns millions more face starvation in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Amid furor over Khashoggi murder, UN warns millions more face starvation in Yemen<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Bill Van Auken<br \/>\n    <br \/>17 October 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The United Nations has warned that the US-backed, Saudi-led war against Yemen is threatening to engulf millions more of the impoverished nation\u2019s people in the worst famine the world has seen in over 100 years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/923b702a-dcbd-409c-b7dd-deb0924589dE\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/923b702a-dcbd-409c-b7dd-deb0924589dE\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Suad, aged 18, begs in the middle of the road between Yemen\u2019s capital, Sana\u2019a, and Saada with her four-year-old nephew, whose mother was killed in the conflict &#8211; Credit: Giles Clarke\/United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Lise Grande, the UN\u2019s humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said Tuesday, \u201cWe are literally looking at hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of people who may not survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The World Food Program, the UN agency coordinating relief efforts in the shattered country, reported that it has been forced to revise its estimate, given just two weeks ago, of 8.5 million Yemenis on the brink of famine, stating that another 5.6 million are being driven to starvation by the effects of the three-and-a-half-year-old war on the country\u2019s infrastructure and economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings are deteriorating very, very quickly,\u201d said Grande. \u201cThe implications are enormous, and, truthfully, frightening. The reality is that time may be running out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UN warning came amid the growing crisis over the disappearance and state assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi Arabia\u2019s consulate in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>US politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have joined in denouncing the Saudi regime for the killing of Khashoggi. The journalist went into self-exile in the US a year ago, after serving for decades as an interlocutor between the Saudi regime and the Western media and working closely with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/10\/17\/yeme-o17.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Amid furor over Khashoggi murder, UN warns millions more face starvation in Yemen By Bill Van Auken 17 October 2018 The United Nations has warned that the US-backed, Saudi-led war against Yemen is threatening to engulf millions more of the impoverished nation\u2019s people in the worst famine the world has seen in over 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}