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The Figaro Letter of August 18, 2020

2020-08-18T05:10:07.462Z


This morning: an unprecedented crisis in Yemen, the World Trade Organization is looking for its boss, and the forests are also victims of the health crisis.


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90% of the population in need of humanitarian aid. A large third threatened with famine. A society fractured by civil war. Daesh. Foreign powers getting involved. A cholera epidemic. Another from coronavirus. The threat of an oil spill. This is happening right now in Yemen, a country going through the "worst period" in its history and hardly any sign that the situation could improve in the short term.

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Ronan Planchon, journalist at Le Figaro

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Yemen, drama behind closed doors

Ten million people are at risk of famine and 24 of the 27 million inhabitants are in need of humanitarian assistance. NEW CHINA / SIPA / NEW CHINA / SIPA

It is the poorest country in the Arab world. As if that were not enough, he is struck by a civil war, Islamist terrorism, a cholera epidemic and the Covid-19 is wandering around quietly. To add a new shadow to the picture, a gigantic ship stranded 7 kilometers off the Yemeni coast threatens to destroy the ecosystem if it dumps its millions of barrels of crude into the Red Sea.

Out of 27 million inhabitants, 24 have

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