Starvation In Yemen

NY Times: U.S. Tax Dollars Help to Starve Children - The famine in Yemen could become the worst the world has seen in a generation. By Nicholas Kristof

He is an eight-year-old boy who is starving and has limbs like sticks, but Yaqoob Walid doesn’t cry or complain. He gazes stolidly ahead, tuning out everything, for in late stages of starvation the human body focuses every calorie simply on keeping the organs functioning.