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U.N. Officials Warn Yemen Facing Humanitarian, Health Disasters
High-level officials from UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) this week warned that "[r]outine immunization of children has dropped by 40 percent in some areas of Yemen, leading to outbreaks of polio and measles and reflecting a growing collapse of public services in a country that is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster," IRIN reports. Earlier this month, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos cited "conflict, poverty, drought, soaring food prices and collapsing state services" as reasons for widespread suffering of millions of people in the country, according to IRIN.
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