The United Nations today warned Saturday of starvation in Yemen in the next few weeks, unless immediate funding is obtained.
Without a urgent funding, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said - in a tweet on Twitter with a video - that aid to millions of lives in Yemen will stop in the next few weeks, putting them at risk of starvation.
The office added that there are 20 million Yemenis currently suffering from food insecurity (out of 30 million), and added, "Millions of lives must be saved in Yemen, and we must act now," stressing that the situation cannot wait.
The office noted that the United Nations has provided humanitarian assistance to 15 million Yemenis from December 2019 until July.
On July 1, the United Nations announced that it had received only 558 million dollars out of one billion and 35 million dollars pledged by donors about a month before that date to support the humanitarian response in Yemen.
Yemen is witnessing for the sixth year a violent war that led to one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, where 80% of the population needed humanitarian aid, and the conflict pushed millions to the brink of starvation.
The conflict in Yemen is further complicated by the fact that it has regional extensions. Since March 2015, an Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia has carried out military operations in the face of Iranian-backed Houthis, who control several provinces including the capital, Sanaa.
Without urgent funding, aid to millions of lives will stop in the next few weeks, putting them at risk of starvation.
We have to act now: https://t.co/2OwMHBxsVY pic.twitter.com/7ohEs9sn0y
- OCHA in Arabic (@UNOCHA_en) July 11, 2020