Trump, About to Visit Saudi Arabia, Is Urged to Help Yemen<br />By NICK CUMMING-BRUCEMAY 15, 2017<br />GENEVA — As President Trump prepares for his first overseas trip this week, his decision to make Saudi Arabia his first stop is prompting<br />urgent appeals from humanitarian agencies to assist in the crisis in neighboring Yemen, which is careening toward a catastrophe.<br />"It’s very, very timely that the United States apply all the pressure it can with regard to all parties involved, including Saudi<br />Arabia," David Beasley, the newly installed head of the United Nations food relief agency, told reporters in Geneva on Monday.<br />After 40 years dealing with international aid and humanitarian relief operations, Mr. Egeland said, "I’m more worried for Yemen now than for any other place on the planet." Get politics<br />and Washington news updates via Facebook, Twitter and in the Morning Briefing newsletter.<br />Seven million people in Yemen are facing starvation<br />and 17 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian relief after two years of fighting between a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels.<br />Visiting two of Sana’s main hospitals on Sunday, Dominik Stillhart, the committee’s director of operations in Yemen, saw beds crammed with up to four patients,<br />and others hooked up to intravenous drips in cars parked outside because of the lack of space.<br />Norwegian visited that This is a colossal failure of international diplomacy<br />and a colossal failure to get out the message of a crisis that is now of biblical proportions,
