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It is nearly six years since the war in Yemen began: in that time the United Nations says some 233,000 people have died and an estimated 20 million people - two-thirds of the Yemeni population - now depend on humanitarian assistance.

The international charity Save the Children says the conflict is having a catastrophic effect on the country's children. They're appealing to richer nations not to decrease the aid they give as the world struggles with coronavirus.

Anna Pantelia from Save the Children is in the Yemeni city of Taiz.

"I met a family, they lost one child in a shelling, and the other child was injured... The child was saying to the mother that sometimes he really hopes to have another explosion so he can go and play with his brother in heaven. And he's only 8 years old."

(Photo: Children look on as smoke billows above a residential area hit in an airstrike on Sanaa. Credit: Getty Images)