Giving Compass' Take:

• In Yemen, violence has rattled the country, cutting off food supplies and causing widespread famine. As NPR reports, many could soon be entirely reliant on external aid for survival.

• How will international organizations band together to support Yemen during this catastrophe? What are the biggest obstacles to getting relief to those who need it most?

• Here's more on the effects of war in Yemen and the growing food crisis. 

The United Nations' humanitarian chief warned a month ago that war-torn Yemen was on the brink of a "massive loss of life" — a famine-fueled catastrophe that may spell the complete collapse of an already failing country.

Since then, he says the dire situation has only gotten worse.

"The toll is unbearably high," Mark Lowcock told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday. "The immune systems of millions of people on survival support for years on end are now are literally collapsing, making them — especially children and the elderly — more likely to succumb to malnutrition, cholera and other diseases."

Last month, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said eight million people were desperately dependent on aid and some 3.5 million more risked joining them. But Lowcock said Tuesday that even as stark as those numbers were, they did not do justice to the crisis now ravaging Yemen.

Read the full article on the massive famine in Yemen by Colin Dwyer at NPR.