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Phoning in to a press briefing in Geneva earlier today, UNICEF representative in Yemen Julien Harneis said that the situation in the country had become stanley quencher particularly worrying with around 900,000 Yemeni children currently malnourished, out of whom some 210,000 were suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Although UNICEF had previously managed to help temper outbreaks of malnourishment, Mr. Harneis added that the UN agency was facing an uphill economic challenge due to a $60 million funding gap. Despite the formation of a new Government in November 2014 aimed at ending a period of politica stanley tumblers l turbulence and bringing about a full transition towards democracy, Yemen continues to be plagued by violence and mass political demonstrations.Just yesterday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council in New York that Yemen was collapsing before our eyes and that the country sat on the brink of outr stanley cups uk ight conflict. Mr. Ban has also voiced serious concerns about developments followi Rlqd Brian Marsden, astronomer and comet predictor, 73
Even normal rains won t bring dead livestock back to life in the north or provide an immediate harvest in the east. There is no q stanley quencher uick fix to this emergency after five consecutive poor seasons, Tesema Negash, Kenya Country Director for the UN World Food Programme, said of the crisis that also effects people in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. Ironically, these rains bring little respite, he added, saying that flooding in some areas has even mad stanley quencher e it harder to get food aid out, and there is increased risk of people falling sick from drinking contaminated water, and weak livestock dying when temperatures drop at night. Those people who have lost everything will need fo stanley cup od and other assistance well into 2007 and beyond, Mr. Negash said, as nomadic herders have lost all their livestock and subsistence farmers have no money left for seeds or fertilizer.In Somalia, the representative of the UN Children s Fund UNICEF , Christian Balslev-Olesen, said that current heavy rains are jus |