ROME: Three UN agencies Friday launched an appeal for emergency food aid to conflict-torn Yemen to avoid a humanitarian "catastrophe" that will hit children hardest.

An assessment by the UN's agencies for food and for children, FAO and UNICEF, and the World Food Program, found "unprecedented" levels of hunger with the number of people who could not be sure of having enough to eat up by three million in seven months.A total of 17.1 million people are now struggling to feed themselves with 7.3 million of those in need of emergency assistance. Yemen has a population of 27.4 million.

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