SANA'A: After a year of renewed warning and alarm rising by many world renown humanitarian organizations and groups such as Oxfam, the World Bank and the UNICEF to only name a few nothing so far seem to have mobilized the international community and sprung it into actions as social workers and doctors are reporting that Yemen's hunger situation is getting worse with every passing day. With an economy crippled by a year of unrest and an ongoing political crisis, which prevent Yemen from truly moving forward and concentrating on rebuilding its shattered infrastructures, the nation is slowly sinking into the depth of despairs with its children withering away from a lack of food and proper medication. Doctors told the Yemen Observer that never in their career did they experience such abject level of malnutrition in children, saying that newborn were crying out in pain for their mothers could no longer nurse them and their fathers could not afford any formula. Left to suffer the pangs of hunger while their desperate mothers are gently rocking them to sleep … maybe for the last time, it is Yemen's future youth which dying while politicians seek to attribute blame. After analysts warned that Yemen would become the next Somalia, raising a few eyebrows amidst the international communities as no one could imagine that a country which possesses Oil and Gas could ever be put in this position, there is no doubt anymore. When looking at Sana'a's hospital wards, which have been transformed into a mortuary where the poorest of poor are coming to die, Yemen indeed has become Somalia. Dwarfed little bodies deformed by pain and infection, willowy mothers and fathers whose hope for a better future is slipping further away as their child is moving on where they cannot follow, or maybe will soon re-unite, this has become Yemen's new reality. Already the poorest country of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen was facing before the uprising chronic corruption, high unemployment and a difficult economic situation. After a year of near paralysis in all the sectors of its industry and a political meltdown which led to widespread insurrections and tribal violence the country is many ways staring down at the abyss, with analysts warning this time around that if nothing is done to remedy the situation immediately it is the entire region which could implode. Catherine Prague the United Nations Assistant Secretary General already announced earlier this week that Yemen needed an evaluated $447 million on humanitarian aids, stressing that time was of the essence.
