Chest heaving and eyes fluttering, the 3-year-old boy lay silently on a hospital ward in the highland town of Hajjah, a bag of bones fighting for breath. His father, Ali al-Hajaji, stood anxiously over him. Mr. Hajaji had already lost one son three weeks earlier to the epidemic of hunger sweeping across Yemen. Now he feared that a second was slipping away.
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A Yemeni child suffering from malnutrition lies on a bed at a treatment centre in a hospital in Yemen's northwestern Hajjah province, on Oct. 25, 2018.
