Lise Grande, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, issued the warning in an interview with the BBC yesterday. Grande said the fierce fighting between Saudi-backed government forces and Houthi rebels, and the ongoing blockade of aid shipments, have created the conditions for humanitarian disaster on a scale not seen since Ethiopia in the 1980s or the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

Reminds me in the early 1990s when half a million Iraqi children died due to the embargo, in a country that was at the forefront of development in the Mideast (after Israel) and never had problems with famine. The "best" part was when Madeleine Albright said it was worth it and when multiple officials said they don't care that there's no more mustard gas, the embargo stays in place, proving that the sanctions were only about hurting Iraq, not about mustard gas. It was only removed in May 2003 following the invasion.