According to a report, street protests against poverty and corruption began in Yemen in 2011. Reportedly, poverty was exacerbated when the u.s. paid Saudi Arabia for Yemen’s oil. According to a report, in 2015 the houthi movement began to fight the government and an ongoing civil war ensued.
Reportedly, today poverty in Yemen is immense. According to a report, bread is in short supply and increasing numbers of starving children are brought in to the Al-Sadaqa hospital. Reportedly, a town of houses built by people displaced by hunger from timber and corrugated sheets has grown next to a food aid distribution point. According to the report, Dr Mohammed Rajeh said that the problem of hunger seems to be getting worse. Reportedly, babies are painfully thin with ribs protruding and folds of skin hanging off stick like limbs, their mothers can’t feed them because they are hungry and malnourished.