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Prices Up 400%

Filed under: Civil Unrest, Yemen, poverty/ hunger — by Jane Novak at 6:55 am on Monday, March 17, 2008

Yemen Observer

Around seventy five percent of Yemenis suffer from food deprivation due to price increases which have risen by 400 percent, said Fadhel Mansour, Vice-President of the NGO Yemen Society for Consumer Protection.

Mansour delivered a speech on the occasion of World Day of the Consumer, which is observed on the fifteenth of March of each year, at an event organized by the Yemen Society for Consumer Protection last Saturday.

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