Nearly 3,000 women face risk of unassisted births as fighting rages in Yemen, UN warns

NEW YORK CITY: More than 2,700 pregnant women in Yemen face the risk of having to give birth without skilled medical care, the UN Population Fund warned on Monday. They are among more than 120,000 people recently displaced by escalating fighting along Yemen’s western coast and the front lines in Taiz. The fund said the violence had cut off more than 30,000 women of childbearing age from access to reproductive healthcare and protection services. At least 500 of the displaced women required eme