World Food Programme's Carl Skau discusses Yemen's food insecurity crisis

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Carl Skau of the World Food Programme about the food insecurity crisis in Yemen. Transcript LEILA FADEL, HOST: Not many people are getting in and out of Yemen these days. Carl Skau did, though. He leads the U.N.'s World Food Programme. And we reached him just hours after he left.CARL SKAU: I spoke to women who were not eating more than once or maybe not even once a day because they're not just getting the assistance they need. You know, we used to provide them food and cash. The food is now gone. And the cash is only every other month.FADEL: Yemen is already in the middle of a civil war that's currently escalating between the Iran-backed Houthis, who control two-thirds of the country, and the internationally recognized government. Now parts of the country are in famine.SKAU: I also spoke to young men who were eager to try to join the conflict because they also didn't have any opportunities. And they weren't able to put food on the table for their families.FADEL: And since the U.S. and Israel started a war with Iran, the Houthis are getting involved in that regional conflict, too. They're threatening to shut down access to a strait in the Red Sea by att...