Yemen

More than a decade of conflict in Yemen has created one of the world's most severe humanitarian crises.

The conflict, coupled with economic hardship and recurring disease, has left 18.3 million people facing acute food insecurity. 

Some 2.2 million children under 5 are acutely malnourished, including 500,000 suffering from severe acute malnutrition, the most life-threatening form.

Escalating fighting in Taiz and along Yemen's western coast is displacing families, worsening humanitarian needs and cutting off access to life-saving assistance. 

Around 800,000 people are now beyond WFP's reach, including more than 600,000 in Taiz who depend on humanitarian support. In some inaccessible areas, wheat flour stocks are nearly exhausted and food supplies in local markets are rapidly diminishing.

The loss of access is especially alarming as Taiz already has some of the country’s highest levels of food insecurity, with 10 out of 16 districts previously classified at Emergency levels under the IPC standard measurement.

Yemen imports around 90 percent of its food, leaving families highly vulnerable to disruptions in trade routes, supply chains and markets. WFP monitoring has found that 74 percent of households are unable to meet their basic food needs, the highest level recorded so far this year.

The World Food Programme (WFP) supplies much of the logistics capacity for the humanitarian response, supporting other UN agencies and NGOs. However, the latest escalation in conflict has severely disrupted humanitarian operations, with humanitarian access restricted, critical supply routes cut off and food stocks lost.

WFP continues to support 1.7 million vulnerable people in Government-controlled areas and has provided emergency assistance to more than 115,000 people newly displaced by the fighting. WFP stands ready to scale up assistance to up to 1.5 million additional people as access allows.

However, critically low funding threatens this life-saving response. WFP urgently requires US$268 million to sustain food assistance, nutrition programmes, school meals, resilience activities and humanitarian logistics services up to March 2027.