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World watches as Yemen descends into total collapse: UN
May 31, 2017
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) -- Yemen is descending into total collapse, with its people facing war, famine and a deadly outbreak of cholera, as the world watches, the UN aid chief said Tuesday.Speaking to the UN Security Council, Stephen O’Brien said “the time is now” to end the world’s largest food emergency and put Yemen back on the path to survival.“Crisis is not coming, it is not looming, it is here today -- on our watch and ordinary people are paying the price,” said O’Brien, the UN under-secretar