The UN mission in Yemen has warned that the nation is facing a growing humanitarian crisis as a result of the growing power-struggle among various factions, which has crippled the nation’s already floundering economy.
Anger at the Saleh regime led to attacks on an oil pipeline, which has brought the nation’s oil industry to a virtual halt. The price of food is soaring, and shipping from one region to another is virtually impossible due to unrest.
Another report released earlier this week warned that as many as 9 million Yemenis are struggling to get access to sufficient food, and that the nation’s health and education services, already among the worst in the region, are being pushed to the breaking point by unrest.
Faced with this, the report warns, shortages are common and the economy is increasingly relying on a black market. The Saleh government insisted the food shortages are “a very serious issue” but insisted they were totally unrelated to the unrest.
What would the world do without some UN busybodies to tell us that "health and education services" are at the breaking point! And that there is a "black market" in food! In the middle of the revolution against the regime — they are concerned about "education services". And the food market in Yemen has ALWAYS relied on the farming, which in Yemen is extensive. If the IMPORTERS , using the LOANS SHOVED DOWN the population throat are not doing well, that does not make domestic market "black market". Shutting down fake economy based on imports would be the best thing that can happen to Yemen. Destroying domestic agriculture that is thriving here well before the time Roman Empire discovered Yemen, has been the net result of the neoliberal policies that aim to shut down anything that is actually productive, and turn everyone into the loan based slave system. That is the scourge of the earth, so hard to shake off. There are too many friends in banking world that would support such a system with whatever "humanitarian" language they can invent. The result is always same. Hardship, poverty — and in the end violence as the only way to solve problems.