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The United Kingdom is being for cutting the amount of aid it to Yemen. The UK's foreign office said it would the amount of humanitarian aid to Yemen by more than 50 per cent. However, just three weeks ago, foreign office minister James Cleverly said Yemen would a "UK priority country". He said his government would all of its efforts to peace. Yemen one of the world's least developed countries. The United Nations that Yemen is the country with the most people in need of humanitarian aid. There are about 24 million people in need of help. This about 85 per cent of its population. It second worst in the Global Hunger Index.

There could a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Millions of people are to find food to eat. There is now the threat of a famine that would the crisis. The civil war has hospitals in ruins. Jan Egeland from the Norwegian Refugee Council said: "We are a relentless countdown to a possible famine that the world hasn't since Ethiopia in the 1980s." The United Nations said: "More than 50,000 Yemenis are already to death and 16 million will hungry this year." It added that the UK cut in aid from $280 million last year to $120 million this year would "tragic". The UK's Guardian newspaper said: "Yemenis aren't starving, they are starved."