Yemen has been suffering what’s being called one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the last 100 years.

The nation’s troubles are complex and the people of Yemen have been dealing with a political military crisis since uprisings broke out nine years ago, in 2011.

In October 2018, the United Nations (UN) reporter 14 million people in Yemen were on the bring of famine.

At the time, it’s estimated approximately 85,000 children under five may have died because of starvation.

Many people don’t have the essentials they need to survive, like food, water and shelter.

In 1990 south Yemen and north Yemen formed into what we know as just Yemen today.

However, the two parts still disagreed with each other and fighting between the government and anti-government fighters (the Houthi rebels) continued.

The situation reached a peak in 2011 when protests led to the president at the time, Ali Abdallah Saleh, resigning and his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, taking over.

At the end of 2014 a civil war began after the Iran-backed rebels took over Sanaa, Yemen’s capital.

In March 2015 Saudi Arabia and its supporting countries started to bomb Yemen in a bid to push out the Houthis.

President Hadi fled Sanaa and set up a temporary capital in a different city called Aden, and has still not been able to return to the capital.

This civil war is still going on today and the country is locked in a difficult situation.