A top U.N. official warned that Yemen’s devastating, five-year civil war has knocked the country back 20 years in terms of development and access to education.
The stalemated conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives, has thrust millions to the brink of famine and has spawned the world’s most devastating humanitarian crisis.
“Much of the Yemeni economy has collapsed. People literally do not have any money to buy food,” Achim Steiner, the U.N. Development Program administrator, told The Associated Press.
“Thousands of schools are closed, millions of children aren’t able to attend school, missing a generation of education,” he said. “Yemen has lost … 20 years of development.”
