United Nations, Nov 29 (SPS) UN Assistant Secretary-General Catherine Bragg warned on Tuesday about the worsening of the humanitarian situation unleashed in Yemen and its impact on millions of people, and called for preventing a catastrophe in that country.
Yemen has one of the highest malnutrition rates worldwide, and is now suffering the collapse of essential services and the threat of a crisis in the health sphere, Bragg stated.
In her talks with Yemeni authorities, she insisted on the need for lasting solutions for people displaced from their places of residence, who are now lodged at schools and other facilities, the UN official noted.
Many of them could not return home due to insecurity, fear of reprisals or for having lost their goods and means of survival, Bragg said in a release distributed at the UN headquarters in New York.
The crisis in that Arab State recently entered a new and uncertain stage after the signing on November 23 of a transition agreement drawn up by the Cooperation Council of the Persian Golf. (SPS)
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