{"id":1546,"date":"2020-12-09T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=135973"},"modified":"2020-12-09T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T10:35:00","slug":"while-the-world-was-locked-down-yemen-faced-an-apocalyptic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/09\/while-the-world-was-locked-down-yemen-faced-an-apocalyptic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"While the world was locked down, Yemen faced an apocalyptic year"},"content":{"rendered":"
To commit such atrocities, the Saudi coalition needed decisive logistical assistance<\/a> from countries including the United States and the United Kingdom. The consequences have been brutal. According to a report from April 2019 by the Pardee Center<\/a> for the United Nations Development Programme, as well as data from ACLED<\/a>, the death toll in the nation since the beginning of the war far exceeds 250,000 and may even be close to 300,000.<\/p>\n It is hard to comprehend the magnitude of the crisis in Yemen: approximately one child dies every 12 minutes in the country, where 24 million people need humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n Donald Trump\u2019s foreign policy has repeatedly tried to undermine the humanitarian crisis in the poorest countries. Two such recent attempts were the efforts to suspend aid to Yemen in March of<\/a> this year, followed by Trump\u2019s decision, announced in May, that the US would leave the World Health Organization, which will have a disastrous effect if President-elect Joe Biden does not rejoin the organisation. The US withdrawing its funding will translate into the abandonment of millions of people who depend on these funds to survive in Yemen. These endeavours were unsurprising considering the Trump\u2019s administration support \u2013 and its \u201cblank cheque\u201d, to quote President-elect Joe Biden \u2013 for Saudi Arabia and the UAE.<\/p>\nFrom Trump to Biden<\/strong><\/h3>\n