International Rescue Committee's report on humanitarian crisis

International Rescue Committee recently released list of countries facing humanitarian crisis . IRC showed the data that Yemen is facing worst situations.

According to the report , Yemen is the country most at risk of a humanitarian catastrophe in 2021.

IRC said, Continued conflict, widespread hunger and a collapsing international aid response threaten to dramatically worsen the current crisis in Yemen next year. Yemen’s internal divisions and a Saudi-led military intervention have spawned an escalating political, military, and humanitarian crisis.

The IRC’s watchlist for 2021 :

It ranked from one to 10, comprised:

• Yemen;
• Afghanistan;
• Syria;
• the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
• Ethiopia;
• Burkina Faso;
• South Sudan;
• Nigeria;
• Venezuela and
• Mozambique.

Yemen’s internationally recognized government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels are fighting for control, with a Saudi-led military coalition backing the government. The country’s humanitarian crisis is said to be the worst in the world, due to widespread hunger, disease, and attacks on civilian targets.

War and civil war affecting yemen :

Yemen faces its biggest crisis in decades with the overthrow of its government by the Houthis, a Zaydi Shiite movement, and the resulting offensive led by Saudi Arabia.

The fighting, and a Saudi-imposed blockade ostensibly meant to enforce an arms embargo, has had devastating humanitarian consequences, causing more than one million people to become internally displaced and leading to cholera outbreaks, medicine shortages, and threats of famine.

The United Nations calls the humanitarian crisis in Yemen “the worst in the world”

While the Saudi-led coalition and pro-government forces have recaptured some territory, the Houthis retain control of the capital, Sanaa, and the ongoing chaos has allowed al-Qaeda’s Arabian Peninsula franchise to establish a foothold.

The Saudi intervention is driven by Iranian backing of the Houthis, and the involvement of other outside powers, including the United States, raised worries that the conflict has become a proxy war.

With numerous armed factions at odds over any potential settlement, UN-led efforts to broker a halt to the fighting have faltered.

Current situation in Yemen :

According to the UN, 80 percent of Yemen’s 30 million people need some form of aid or protection.

UN data shows About 13.5 million Yemenis currently face acute food insecurity, including 16,500 people living in famine-like conditions.

UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock had warned in November that Yemen had received less than half of the emergency funds it needed this year. Global financial support for yemen seems to be drying up. Yemen had received only about $1.5bn in donations to date, some 45 percent of the $3.4bn required. By this time last year it had received almost $3bn.

Twenty-four million people are in need of some kind of humanitarian aid – be it food, protection, health services, or education.