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Yemen's Houthi rebels overthrew the country's government and took control of the capital, Sanaa. The country has been at war ever since.
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Leading a ten nation coalition of Sunni Arab States. Unwilling to let Yemen be ruled by a Shiite government. Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners are committed to reinstating Yemen's Sunni government.
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The sea, land and air blockade on Yemen which started with the positioning of Saudi Arabian warships in Yemeni waters.
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The US has dispatched warships to reinforce the blockade, it has refueled Saudi planes, sent the Saudi military targeting intelligence, and resupplied them with tens of billions of dollars worth of bombs
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The famine is the direct result of the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen and blockade.Yemen was already the most impoverished nation the Middle East, but the war and the naval blockade by the Saudi-led coalition and the United States Navy made the situation much worse. Fishing boats, the main livelihood of residents, were destroyed by Saudi airstrikes, leaving them without any means to provide for their families. As a result, one child dies every ten minutes on average.
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The outbreak is a result of the ongoing war. Collapsing health, and sanitation systems have cut off 14.5 million people from regular access to clean water and sanitation ,increasing the ability for the disease to spread.
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In July a 25% increase of severe hunger cases in Yemen compared to 2017 has been reported.
