The UN humanitarian chief says the World Food Program delivered emergency food to a record 7 million people across conflict-wracked Yemen in August, “helping to avert potential famine.” Mark Lowcock told a high-level event on Yemen on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s ministerial meeting Friday that this represents a 60 percent increase from the average of 4.4 million people who received food assistance in the first six months of the year. The increase was partially a result of much higher imports in July. Despite the delivery, Lowcock said Yemen “ is facing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with nearly 21 million people in need of emergency aid or protection, ” most of them children. He said the threat of famine still looms. https://www.rt.com/news/line/ Related: Saudi Arabia, US and Britain "celebrate" 900 days of slaughter in Yemen