UPSC Prelims 2018 question on Famine Yemen South Sudan

Analysis

Yemen and South Sudan are the countries in question, so the answer is (d).

Yemen was described by the United Nations as being on the brink of the world's largest famine, with 17 million people dependent on external aid for food and medicine while the country fought a massive cholera outbreak. The breakdown of government services, lack of drinking water and a crumbling health sector, alongside civil war and aerial bombardment, drove the crisis.

In South Sudan, a year after famine was briefly declared, more than half the people of the world's youngest nation faced extreme hunger amid civil war, with United Nations and government figures putting more than six million people at risk without aid, roughly 40 percent higher than a year earlier.