NEW YORK: More than 18 million people in Yemen — over half the country’s population — are acutely hungry, the UN’s top humanitarian official told the Security Council on Tuesday, describing a crisis that is deepening faster than the international community can respond. During a Security Council meeting on Yemen, Tom Fletcher warned that the share of people unable to meet basic food needs had jumped from half to nearly 60 percent in just one month. The proportion facing the most extreme deprivation rose from a quarter to nearly a third over the same period.

Top UN officials called for bolstered efforts to stave off rising hunger and foster a path towards permanent peace in Yemen as they briefed the Security Council Tuesday morning.

NEW YORK: More than 18 million people in Yemen — over half the country’s population — are acutely hungry, the UN’s top humanitarian official told the Security Council on Tuesday,…