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The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures reveal record highs of acute food insecurity in the country, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned today. “These alarming numbers must be a wake-up call to the world.

More women in positions of leadership  Around 110 heads of state attended COP27. Yet only seven of those were women.  Gender equality is important in all forms of leadership but particularly in relation to climate change as women are disproportionately affected by climate impacts.

 “Go get the children, we have to leave, they will kill us,” shouted Ousmane, Djanabou’s husband in the middle of the night, in December 2013. Having woken up abruptly, she gathered their four children, took the first bag of clothes she could find and got into her husband's car.

This additional cost to WFP’s operations could have been used to provide six million school children with a daily nutritious meal for six months.