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UN:
URGENT FUNDS NEEDED TO RUN FOOD AID OPERATION IN YEMEN, SAYS UN AGENCY:
06/12/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 06 December 2007 --
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today
called on donors to provide an urgent injection of $3.3 million in funds so that
it can feed for the next four months nearly 80,000 Yemenis who have been
displaced by intermittent conflict in the northwest of the country.
WFP Yemen Country
Director Mohamed El-Kouhene said improved security in the Sa’adah governorate,
where the conflict is centred, in recent months has allowed the agency to start
assisting many more people across the region. Before then, the violence had
confined the operation largely to Sa’ada city.
The agency said
in a news release that it estimates it will need to feed 77,000 internally
displaced persons (IDPs) from now until at least next March, double the number
of people it has been helping since the operation began in June.
Under the scheme
WFP provides food to those who cannot meet their own needs and the Yemeni
Government provides security and logistical assistance.
Conflict between
Yemeni Government forces and followers of the rebel movement of Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
has flared intermittently since 2004, but in the latest round of fighting that
began in January, the homes and possessions of tens of thousands of people have
been destroyed, forcing many to flee.
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