other NGOs, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) alerted the world to what may be the largest famine in decades that is likely to affect 14 million people.

"What we see on the ground in Yemen is children who are starving to death, families who have to make choices about which child they feed, which child get medicine," Suze van Meegen, who has been based in Sanaa for nearly 18 months, said. The capital is under Houthi control along with most of northern Yemen.

France and Yemen

NRC points out the discrepency between the position of the French government and the French parliament where MPs are pushing for a bill to open a parliamentary investigation commission on arms sales to the parties involved in the Yemen conflict.

"If the French government is sellingweapons, as we know they are, that have been used on Yemeni civilians, they have a responsability to use that influence on the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition to stop them from continuing to strike hospitals, schools, road and bridges that are needed to move food around the country and to start addressing some of the economic deterioration in Yemen," says van Meegen.

She adds that she doesn't understand why France, the USA and the UK have not followed other European countries in their position against Saudi Arabia.

Recently, the United States announced that it will not support a United Nations resolution calling for a limited ceasefire and increased humanitarian aid in Yemen for fear of angering Saudi Arabia.

Political process

The warring parties are expected to meet in Sweden next week for