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epa09827186 A Yemeni prepares bread dough at a bakery amid food price spike in Sana'a, Yemen, 15 March 2022. Over 17.4 million Yemenis are facing food insecurity and an additional 1.6 million expected to fall into emergency levels of hunger after aid agencies suspended vital relief programs in impoverished Yemen as of January 2022 due to severe funding shortfalls, the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UNICEF have warned. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is likely to further increase food prices in war-ravaged Yemen, pushing millions into hunger, as Yemen depends on Ukraine for 30 percent of its wheat imports, causing higher prices in the poorest Arab country. Yemen has been pushed the brink of famine as a result of the prolonged war between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government forces since March 2015, leaving 80 percent of the country's 30 million-population in dire need of food assistance. EPA/YAHYA ARHAB