The UN aid chief on Tuesday (May 30th) told the UN Security Council that Yemen is descending into total collapse, with its people facing war, famine and a deadly outbreak of cholera, AFP reported.
"The time is now" to end the world's largest food emergency and put Yemen back on the path to survival, UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs Stephen O'Brien told the council.
"Crisis is not coming, it is not looming, it is here today — on our watch — and ordinary people are paying the price," he said.
"The people of Yemen are being subjected to deprivation, disease and death as the world watches," he said adding that the crisis is spiraling towards "total social, economic and institutional collapse".
Returning from talks in the region, UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed reported no progress in his efforts to broker a return to negotiations and to clinch a deal on allowing vital deliveries to al-Hodeidah port.
"I will not hide from this council that we are not close to a comprehensive agreement," he said.
