(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
Doha: Qatar has provided Yemen close to $195m from 2013 to 2020, the Government Communications Office (GCO) said yesterday in an infographic posted on its official Twitter handle.
On Wednesday, Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani directed the allocation of $100m to support UN food efforts in Yemen.
“The Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani directed the allocation of $100m in support of the efforts of the United Nations World Food Program in Yemen to support food security and to help prevent famine, and to assist the United Nations relief and urgent humanitarian programs to alleviate the exacerbation of the human tragedy in Yemen,” QNA reported on Wednesday.
In a tweet yesterday, the GCO said:“H H the Amir has allocated $100m in humanitarian aid to support food-insecure Yemenis through the efforts of the United Nations World Food Programme. The State of Qatar is committed to supporting development efforts in Yemen in collaboration with the @UN.”
Yemen has been embroiled in a deadly civil war since September 2014 when Houthis overran all government institutions in Sana'a and gained control of the city, forcing the internationally recognised government of
Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi to resign. Hadi later returned to Aden in 2015.
Since then, the UN estimates at least 233,000 Yemenis have been killed; among them, 131,000 died from indirect causes like food insecurity, lack of healthcare, and medicine.
Nearly 25 million Yemenis remain in need of assistance.
Five million Yemenis are at risk of famine, with 50,000 people already living in famine-like conditions, and a cholera outbreak has affected over one million people.
It is estimated that more than 16 million people will go hungry this year due to the dire conditions that have been imposed on the country amid the ongoing war. About 400,000 Yemeni children below the age of five could die from acute malnutrition.
The UN has described the situation in Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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