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The US State Department announced Tuesday that Washington was giving “nearly $24 million in additional emergency aid to the people of Yemen, who face the world's largest humanitarian crisis.”
Nearly 80 percent of Yemen’s population is in need of humanitarian assistance. Some 20 million Yemenis do not have access to basic health care, and more than five million are one step removed from famine. Without continuing large-scale international humanitarian efforts, many more would face life-threatening hunger, and could die from preventable disease.
On Tuesday (February 26, 2019), donors met in Geneva to pledge additional funding in the amount of $2.6 billion to assist vulnerable Yemenis.
The United Nations has opened a third pledging conference in the hopes of drumming up some $4 billion this year for Yemen.
The United States along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are among the largest donors of humanitarian assistance to the Yemen response.
The trio is also active in the military aggression against Yemen. Both Riyadh and the Abu Dhabi are leading a coalition of mostly Sunni Arab countries bombing the country in an attempt to reinstate the resigned regime of former President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Meanwhile, Washington provides intelligence, logistical support and arms.
Source: Yemenwatch.net
