One in two children under the age of five in Yemen is acutely malnourished, according to the United Nations. "This catastrophe is not natural. It is man-made," UNICEF's Yemen representative Peter Hawkins tells a press briefing in Geneva, speaking from Sanaa.
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00:00One in two children under the age of five are malnourished in Yemen today.
00:07This is a statistic that is almost unparalleled across the world.
00:12Among them are over 540,000 girls and boys who are severely and acute malnourished.
00:20A condition that is agonizing, life-threatening and entirely preventable.
00:26This catastrophe is not natural, it is man-made.
00:30Over a decade of conflict has decimated Yemen's economy, healthcare system and infrastructure.
00:38Even during periods of reduced violence, the structural consequences of the conflict,
00:44especially for girls and boys, have remained severe.