Yemen's seven-year-old war's direct and indirect impacts will have claimed 377,000 lives by the end of this year, UN agency estimates
More than 80 percent of the population of around 30 million require humanitarian assistance in Yemen, the poorest country in the region, the UNDP says.
Nearly 60 percent of deaths will have been caused by indirect impact of the war such as lack of safe water, hunger and disease, a UN Development Programme report said on Tuesday.Projecting the impact of continued fighting into the future, the UNDP warned that 1.3 million people in total will have died by 2030 as "the situation continues to propel in a downward spiral".
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