Yemen edging nearer famine as war, 'shredded economy' take toll: U.N. official

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemen's humanitarian catastrophe is set to worsen as the war has ruined the economy and is stopping food supplies getting through, driving the country to the brink of famine, the top U.N. aid official in the country told Reuters. "Throughout the whole of this country kids are dying," said Jamie McGoldrick. Nearly two years of war between a Saudi-led Arab coalition and the Iran-allied Houthi movement has left more than half of Yemen's 28 million people "food insecure", with 7 million of them enduring hunger, according to the United Nations.

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