UN report: Aid in Yemen on the verge of collapse
English - Thursday 02 July 2020 الساعة 02:05 pm
Aden, Newsyemen
The United Nations said, yesterday, Wednesday, that humanitarian aid in Yemen is on the verge of collapse, indicating that it has received only 40 percent of the total pledges announced earlier this month, while the donors' conference for Yemen, which was held in early June in Riyadh, collected $ 1.35 billion for the humanitarian response In Yemen.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, "OCHA" in Yemen, added in a report that the international organization "received only 558 million dollars, out of 1.35 billion dollars pledged by donors about a month ago to support the humanitarian response in Yemen."
It pointed out that "the tragedy of Yemen unfolds with the continued growth of humanitarian needs, coinciding with the depletion of funds of relief agencies to finance life-saving aid."
The UN report warned that "aid in Yemen is on the verge of collapse unless donors fulfill their pledges immediately", indicating that nearly 80 percent of the population still needs humanitarian assistance and protection.
It explained that Yemen needs "more than 3.2 billion dollars in humanitarian aid during the current year 2020".
