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  • welcome to the Voice of America's news works.

  • The war in Yemen has caused many people there, especially Children, to suffer impede.

  • The regional chief of the United Nations Children's Agency visited Children affected by the war in the Yemeni city of Hodeidah.

  • He said authorities and Yemen are making it difficult to deliver needed humanitarian aid, including food and medicine.

  • He warned that efforts to impede relief could cause massive starvation and disease.

  • To impede something is to delay or block its progress or movement.

  • When an action is impeded, it is difficult to complete.

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