Aden (agencies)
The United Nations World Food Program has announced that humanitarian aid in Yemen has been halved.
This comes, according to a statement of the United Nations Program, in light of the severe shortage of funding, the repercussions of the crisis in Ukraine, in addition to the inflation witnessed at the global level.
He pointed out that during the last period, the program worked to provide various life-saving monthly assistance to more than half of the population in Yemen, i.e. to more than 19 million people, including regarding 13 million people in need.
The program pointed out that in light of the present time it finds itself obliged to reduce the aid provided to the poorest, explaining that the aid will be reduced to less than 50 percent of the daily needs of the five million most needy people, while the aid will be reduced to the rest of the eight million beneficiaries to About 25 percent of their daily needs.
He added, “The activities to enhance resilience and livelihoods, nutrition programs and school feeding activities for four million beneficiaries will also be suspended.”
And he added, “Aid will continue to be provided within these activities and programs to regarding 1.8 million people only.”
