Record 12.4m people reached with food aid in Yemen: UN

GENEVA, Sept 20 (Reuters): A record 12.4 million people in Yemen received food aid in August, the first time the targeted population was reached fully, the UN World Food Programmeme (WFP) said on Friday.

At the same time, WFP said it still needed $600 million from donors to provide uninterrupted food deliveries for the next six months in the war-torn country. Both Houthi forces and the Saudi-led coalition they are fighting have used access to aid and food as a political tool, exacerbating what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with high rates of severe child malnutrition.