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Yemen blockade may cause world's largest famine in decades
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Abdulaziz al-Husseinya lies skeletal and appears lifeless in a hospital in Yemen’s western port city of Hodeidah. At the age of nine, he weighs less than one and a half stone, and is one of hundreds of thousands of children in the country suffering from acute malnutrition.
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Millions of Yemenis will die of famine if Saudi-led coalition blockade not lifted: UN
(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.
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Gaza under threat of food security
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - 11 years have passed since the blockade of the Gaza strip, and the region still suffers from the consequences of war and an oppressive blockade.
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UN chief visits Gaza, calls for lifting of blockade
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for the blockade of Gaza to be lifted Wednesday as he visited the Palestinian enclave enduring "one of the most dramatic humanitarian crises" he had seen.
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Qatar is feeding itself under the Saudi blockade
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - If everything goes according to plan, a specially-configured transport plane will land in Qatar later this week and lower its ramp to send 140 German cows blinking into the desert sunlight.
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Yemen condemns Saudi shutdown of airports and blockade
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Civil Aviation and Metrology Authority on Tuesday asked the international community and the United Nations to investigate the impact of the shutdown and destruction of Yemeni airports and a blockade by the Saudi-led coalition on the Yemeni people.