‘The number of people displaced by violence across Yemen has exceeded 300,000, a United Nations agency has said, as an ongoing aggression by Saudi Arabia keeps inflicting heavy losses on the impoverished country.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday that the number of displaced people in Yemen has nearly increased two-fold compared to figures announced around mid-April.
The UN body said the surge was mainly due to escalated fighting in 19 provinces in Yemen, where people have been forced to escape the deadly airstrikes by Saudi Arabia while they have been also suffering the brunt of attacks by the al-Qaeda terrorists.’
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