The Saudi-led alliance tightened its air, land and sea blockade of Yemen after a ballistic missile was fired on Saturday towards the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
Since then, the country's already inflated food and fuel prices have skyrocketed, while flights delivering much-needed humanitarian aid have been prevented from landing.
After briefing the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Mark Lowcock, the UN's humanitarian chief, said the move will worsen a "catastrophic" humanitarian crisis that has pushed millions to the brink of famine and has caused a mass cholera epidemic.
"I have told the Council that unless those measures are lifted ... there will be a famine in Yemen," Lowcock, who visited Yemen late in October, told reporters on Wednesday.
"It will not be like the famine that we saw in South Sudan earlier in the year, where tens of thousands of people were affected. It will not be like the famine which cost 250,000 people their lives in Somalia in 2011," he added.
"It will be the largest famine the world has seen in many decades, with millions of victims."
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Millions of people will die in Yemen, in what will be the world's worst famine crisis in decades, unless the Saudi-led military coalition ends a devastating blockade and allows aid into the country, the United Nations has warned.
9 November 2017 - 09:28
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