Yemen's wheat reserves down to three months supply
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LONDON - Yemen has roughly three months supply of wheat left to draw from, leaving the country exposed to serious disruption as a central bank crisis cuts food imports and starvation deepens, the top U.N. aid official in the country told Reuters.
A decision by Yemen's internationally-recognised government in August to move the central bank out of Sanaa, the capital city controlled by the armed Houthi movement with which it is at war, to the southern port city of Aden has triggered bigger hardships for Yemenis and paralysed the bank.
Reuters reported in December that Yemen's biggest traders had stopped new wheat imports due to a shutdown in trade finance and no import guarantees from the central bank for some months.
Jamie McGoldrick, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, said the Arab peninsula's poorest country had only three months left of wheat stocks and that was also likely to be the case for other key food grains such as rice.
