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The UN’s food aid arm, the World Food Programme, says it is being forced to cut rations to millions of starving people in war-ravaged Yemen in order to feed those starving to death there. The WFP’s director for the Middle East and North Africa region, Corinne Fleischer, told AFP in an interview on Friday that donor money is drying up despite Yemen going through what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. “We have a big funding crunch,” she said. Donor money so far only covers 18 percent of the nearly two billion dollars WFP needs for its Yemen operations, she said. “We…