国际英语资讯:Feature: 1 meal per day for children, Yemenis expecting end of war_时事

国际英语资讯:Feature: 1 meal per day for children, Yemenis expecting end of war

SANAA, Dec. 9 -- As a 55-year-old father who cannot secure next meal for his eight starving children, Ahmed al-Sharafi doesn't complain.

"There is always a glimmer of hope," he told Xinhua.

Unlike millions of starving Yemenis, al-Sharafi is lucky as a charity bakery is few meters away from his house in a popular quarter east of the capital Sanaa.

"We were very comfortable before the war erupted ... but today I cannot afford a bottle of yogurt because it's too expensive," al-Sharafi said.

Al-Sharafi receives 15 pieces of small-and-round bread each morning from the charity bakery to feed his hungry children. The allocated bread is not enough for one meal.

Around 750 families in Noqum quarter receive a daily support of bread, according to those who fund the bakery.

Asked if his family has lunch or dinner, al-Sharafi lowered his head.

The civil war erupted between the internationally-recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and armed Houthi rebels.

The Houthis moved in thousands of fighters and stormed the capital Sanaa in September 2017, forcing Hadi and his government into exile.

The U.S.-backed Saudi Arabia leading a military coalition from several Arab countries intervened in the Yemeni conflict in March 2017 to reinstate Hadi to power and roll back the rebels' gains who seized control over much of the country's north, including the capital Sanaa and Hodeidah port city.