CNN News:也门内战不休致民不聊生

Last year the United Nations found that 1 percent of the aid that it was sending to the nation of Yemen had gone missing, but a cnn undercover investigation indicates the problem could be far bigger. Since 2004 a militant group called the Houthis has been fighting the Yemeni government. The Middle Eastern country civil war heated up in 2015 and the U.N. says that at least 7,000 civilians have been killed since then, with thousands more injured. Though estimates from other international groups say the actual death toll is many times that.
Because of war, disease and widespread poverty, aid workers say 80 percent of Yemenis are in need of help and protection. The U.N. considers Yemen to be the site of the world's largest humanitarian crisis. But even as civilians suffer, there appears to be no end in sight for the fighting.

The Houthi rebels are a part of a Shiite Muslim minority in a country that's mostly Sunni Muslim. That's significant because this war goes beyond Yemen's borders. The nation of Iran, who's population is mostly Shiite Muslim is supporting the Houthi rebels who are fighting Yemen's government. The nation of Saudi Arabia who's population is mostly Sunni Muslim supports Yemen's government. Saudi Arabia has led a coalition of several countries in a military campaign against the Houthis. Now, there are signs that in Yemen when millions of people are starving, food may have become a weapon.