UN reaches food aid warehouses in al-Hodeida
English - Thursday 28 February 2019 الساعة 04:57 pm
Al-Hodeida - NewsYemen.net
The UN said Tuesday it had reached food aid warehouses on the frontlines in Yemen, holding enough supplies to feed millions of people, for the first time since September.
“I have just received a piece of good news. Finally, it was possible for us to reach the Red Sea Mills,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a pledging conference for Yemen in Geneva.
“Today, for the first time since September, a World Food Programme team was able to reach the site of the Red Sea Mills, which holds 51,000 metric tons of grain, which is enough to feed more than 3.7 million people for a month,” Herve Verhoosel said.
“We do not yet have the technical results from today’s evaluation, but we hope to be able to begin using this site again as soon as possible,” he added.
"We sent samples of wheat to the laboratories to inspect it, we are waiting for the results, Wheat get licorice, something we expected and ," said WFP spokesman Herve Verhoosel , adding: "We have not seen any evidence of water damage to the stock. The silos appear to be evidence of damage caused by the fighting, but there are no serious structural damage. "
