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U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) Backgrounder : Yemen

May 24, 2021

The situation in Yemen (“Yemen Crisis”) is currently the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, impacting more than 24 million people, nearly half of them children.

1 Starting as a failed political transition, the armed conflict escalated in 2015 and has steadily grown worse, causing widespread displacement, spread of disease, famine, poverty, and death.

2 Read the full report here USCRI Backgrounder Yemen


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