Saudi Arabia donates $150 m to King Salman Relief Center's activities in Yemen


(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency)
Geneva, Rajab 28, 1438, April 25, 2017, SPA -- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today announced a new donation to King Salman Relief and Humanitarian Work activities in Yemen worth $150 million, in addition to its previous $100 million appropriated to the Riyadh-based center since the beginning of 2017.
The donation came in a speech by Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabeaa, Consultant at the Royal Court and supervisor general of the center, who leads the Kingdom's delegation to the Donors Conference in Geneva assigned to finance the humanitarian response plan for Yemen 2017.
Al-Rabeaa explained that the new donation comes as part of the total $8.2 billion committed by the Kingdom within its humanitarian and developmental assistance since April 2015 to date.
--SPA
17:55 LOCAL TIME 14:55 GMT

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