The head of the World Food Program, WFP, has warned that 16 million people in Yemen are facing food insecurity
Chief David Beasley added that the distribution of food to millions of people in the war-torn country would be suspended next October if the agency did not receive more funding.
At a high-level meeting on Yemen's humanitarian crisis, Beasley said the United States, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and other donors had stepped in to help the organization cope with the financial crisis earlier this year. of food, insecurity was controlled in Yemen.
The United Nations has called for $ 3.85 billion for Yemen
According to the WFP chief, the agency is now facing another financial crisis and without funding, food rations will be reduced to 3.2 million people next month and by December, 5 million people will have food shortages.
In March, the United Nations called for $ 3.85 billion in funding for Yemen, but so far more than half of that money has been raised. According to the European Union, which hosted a high-level UN conference yesterday in cooperation with Switzerland and Sweden, $ 600 million was raised. This means that about $ 1 billion is still needed to achieve the goal of the United Nations.
The United States, through its foreign minister, has pledged $ 290 million in humanitarian aid to Yemen and the European Union has said it will set aside $ 139 million for the country.
Yemen has been at war since 2014
Muhsin Siddiquey, director of Oxfam's humanitarian organization in Yemen, has called on other countries in the world to follow the example of the United States and the European Union in order to save Yemen from falling into food insecurity, poverty, and a bleak future.
Yemen has been embroiled in civil war since 2014 when Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the capital, Sanaa, and much of the northern part of the country, forcing President Abed Rabbo Mansour's government to flee south and end up in Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi-led military coalition intervened in the war and the airstrikes that have been carried out by the alliance have not helped in any way, instead, the war escalated and caused the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world.
