Ukraine war pushes food prices higher in Yemen
The United Nations data indicate that one-third of Yemen’s wheat comes from Russia and Ukraine and Yemen imports 90 percent of its foodstuffs from abroad.
The war in Ukraine led over the past days to the rising prices of basic foodstuffs by 38 percent with staple wheat flour and vegetable oil recording the largest increases, according to the report on Yemen’s food security outlook during the months from March to September 2022.
Hamdi Najib, a Yemeni citizen, told A24 News Agency’s reporter that his salary is only fifty thousand Yemeni riyals, which is enough to buy one bag of flour.
He said the government had promised to find a solution to the rising prices but nothing was resolved. Um Ahmed, another citizen, spoke to A24 and said her family has one meal per day and the family’s salary of thirty thousand Yemeni riyals is not even enough for a bag of flour.
Majid Al-Daeri, an economist, said the war in Ukraine has also affected prices across the world not only in Yemen.