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Yemenis have taken to social media to launch the #BringDevBack – Bring Development Back to Yemen – campaign, Al Jazeera reported Friday.
“I am so proud to be part of this campaign #BringDevback in Yemen, it’s an important message. It means ending the war, it means thinking about the future, it means hope and jobs for young people,” Wesam Qaid, executive director at Sanaa-based economic development organization SMEPS, told Al Jazeera.
“And it means getting the country moving again in the right direction.”
The campaign, launched last week, shows that locals feel that humanitarian aid is not an adequate response for Yemen, amid the on-going civil conflict. Yemenis feel that they need infrastructural development, to ensure basic needs are met such as jobs and education.
The campaign continues to be used on social media, attracting daily tweets on what development means to Yemenis and local business.
Yemenis are posed with malnutrition with nearly one million cases of cholera across the country. Former President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi requested the Saudi-led coalition to militarily assist to forcefully bring him back to power in March 2015. The conflict continues, with a forthcoming peace talks to be hosted by Oman later this year.
On Thursday, a British Member of Parliament called out Saudi Arabia’s aid plan for Yemen a public relations stunt, labeling it a “cynical exercise”. Early this year, Saudi Arabia set up a £3.5 billion “Yemen Comprehensive Humanitarian Operations” aid plan. It came after the Kingdom came under international criticism over its military assault on Yemen which had triggered devastating humanitarian impact for civilians.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
