Conflict in Yemen

According to the Global peace Index by the Institute for Economics and peace in 2017, Yemen is the fourth least peaceful country in the world right after Afghanistan, Iraq and South Sudan. Since 2008 Yemen has slipped 28 places in the ranking due to an increase in the level of violent crime, intensity of internal organized conflicts, and the impact of terrorism. Yemen is one of the five countries that accounted for approximately 75 percent of total deaths to terrorism in 2015.  
The conflict in Yemen is primarily part of Saudi-influenced regional instability, a result of the intense rivalry between Shia Iran and the Sunni Arab Gulf monarchies. The conflict has also led to Saudi Arabia’s costly military intervention in Yemen. In Yemen, Saudi Arabia is specifically fighting to drive the Iranian-backed Houthi movement out of the country.  
According to the Borgen Project, in September 2017, 75% of Yemen’s population, or about 22 million people, were in need of humanitarian assistance. During the conflict, Yemen’s GDP per capita has gone down by 61 percent, basic food prices have increased by 98 percent, and about half of the Yemeni people are out of work. Since 2017, the number of Yemenis living below the poverty line has gone up by 30% percent and reached 79% of the population.  

Daily life in Yemen is a struggle for survival for many. Over two million Yemeni have been displaced, a vast majority of which are women and children. Over 18 million people don’t have easy access to food and 8.4 million of these are at the brink of starvation. 16 million also do not have clean drinking water, which has hit rural areas hardest. In the wake of this, malnutrition has skyrocketed, about 2.9 million women and children suffer from malnutrition.

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