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¡°We¡¯re facing famine in Yemen¡­.there¡¯s 16 million innocent victims of this unnecessary man-made war, struggling to get food every single day. Eleven million are IPC level 3, which means they¡¯re at a crisis level. 5 million are at emergency level and 50,000 are in famine-like conditions.¡±

¡°We¡¯re running out of money as we speak¡­ we need about US$ 860 million just to avert famine. And that¡¯s for six months. We don¡¯t even have half that. That means we¡¯re going to have to cut the rations which we now have, which is 9 million people that we are feeding.¡±

¡°We¡¯re struggling now to feed 13 million people.  And if we¡¯re struggling with 13 million people, and we don¡¯t have the money, and the access and the tools that we need, then what do you think¡¯s going to happen?  Well I can give you a pretty clear picture: we anticipate 80 percent of the population of Yemen to immediately start moving into classification 3, 4 and 5. How are they going to get food? How are they going to get fuel? How are they going to get medicine?  It is going to be a catastrophe...we're going to have a catastrophe on our hands.¡±

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