The United Nations is the main provider of reproductive health services in Yemen, where a long-running conflict has left 80 percent of people reliant on aid, but it has been forced to cut back its operations due to a funding shortfall.
The warning comes a day after a UN appeal for countries to fund emergency aid in the Arab world’s poorest nation fell a billion dollars short of what agencies need to cover essential activities from June to December.
Jan Egeland, UN Special Adviser for Syria, also says the UN Security Council resolution calling for a month of ceasefire has done little to improve the situation in the opposition-held region.
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) said four patients have been taken to hospitals in Damascus, the first of 29 critical cases approved for medical evacuation, and that the remainder would be evacuated over the coming days.
Children were among those killed when regime warplanes targeted opposition-held Eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland says the conflict in Syria is returning to its "bleakest days" as the people trapped in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta face mass starvation.
UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura hopes Astana talks will support the next round of UN-led talks he plans in Geneva from February 8.
A World Health Organization official in Syria says the evacuation process is "going smoothly".
TRT World spoke to a volunteer for the White Helmets who says if Aleppo falls under Syrian regime control, there could be a genocide.
The violence in east Aleppo has sparked outrage from across the world, with the UN slamming the Syrian regime and its ally Moscow for its continuous bombardment of the area.
The UN special envoy for Syria has said the cessation of hostilities agreed between the US and Russia is holding but urged the Syrian regime to issue letters authorising the delivery of aid to besieged areas in Aleppo.
UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien urged all combatants in Aleppo to agree to a 48-hour pause to allow delivery as hundreds of thousands of residents are in dire conditions due to five year long civil war.
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