Yemen food crisis partly a war tactic, UN says

The crisis in Yemen that has left millions hungry and on the brink of famine is "a man-made disaster" driven in part by an economic strangulation being used as a tactic of war, a UN development chief has said.

Auke Lootsma said "there is no end in sight" to Yemen's civil war and about 70% of the country's 27 million people need humanitarian aid, 60% do not know where their next meal is coming from, and nearly 7 million "are close to slipping into a state of famine".