Nearly 80 % of Yemenis in Need of Food and Aids

Jan.28/ Yemeni press

Stephen O’Brien, humanitarian operations, a UN official confirmed that 80 percent of Yemen’s population in need of urgent food aid, warning that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen has seen growing, and the country faces a famine this year.

Obrian told the Security Council that “the conflict in Yemen is now the main engine for the largest case of emergency in the area of food security in the world” and added that “if there was no immediate action, the famine now possible scenario in 2017,” he said, adding that there are about 14 million people, or nearly 80 percent of Yemen’s population, in need of food aid, half of them living severe a lack of food security.

He added that at least two million people in need of emergency food assistance to stay alive, and O’Brien continued, “Overall, the plight of children still exist: the child does not exceed ten dies every ten minutes to preventable causes.”

He called on the Regional Director of the World Food Program to provide the necessary assistance, where he said that the program needs to be $ 60 million, adding that “we have to focus on helping the Yemenis, we have to make sure that we have the necessary facilities .. We need the resources and political support from the international community “.

The director of the United Nations for humanitarian operations has warned that 7.6 million people in Yemen are facing a severe shortage of food and they just “one step” from starvation, pointing out that there was a “shocking decline in the support provided by donors” for millions of people who need to food, clean water and health care.

The United Nations also confirmed in its latest report that ten thousand people at least were killed and 40,000 others sustained as a result of the Saudi aggression against Yemen for nearly two years.
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