The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a coalition of UN agencies has released an alert that over the last three months (August to October 2019), around one-third of the Afghan population required urgent humanitarian action.

Some 53 percent of Yemen’s population, 15.9 million people, is now facing “severe acute food insecurity” as the direct result of a Saudi-led invasion of the impoverished country and the ensuing economic collapse, a survey says.