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Mercy Corps on Monday expressed its inability to “keep pace with the growing crisis” in Yemen, adding that Humanitarian aid only ever treats the symptoms of the underlying disease -- it cannot provide the cure.”
Four years after it started, the conflict in Yemen has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. 80 percent of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance and more than one third, 10 million people cannot find enough to eat.
“As this crisis enters its fifth year, Yemen remains crippled by a broken economy and a conflict with no end in sight, and it is the Yemeni civilians who are the casualties,” Mercy Corps’ Acting Country Director in Yemen Omer Omer comments in a statement ahead of the fourth anniversary conflict.
He adds that “de-escalating” the conflict is the basis for everything, telling all sides that “anything other than peace is simply driving Yemen towards a worsening humanitarian crisis.”
Omer also expressed hope for some “political momentum towards peace or even just a wider ceasefire this year.”
The war in Yemen has not only killed tens of thousands of people. It has also devastated the country and left its economy in tatters.
In 2015, Saudi Arabia launched an international coalition in a bid to forcefully reinstate former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Along with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates has conducted airstrikes on Yemeni soil. Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, Jordan and Egypt have also contributed to the operations.
The Middle Eastern nation has also been hit by a cholera outbreak deemed the worst in the world by the UN. It estimates that roughly 600,000 people have contracted the disease since last year and more than 2,000 people have died from it.
The UN called it the "worst humanitarian crisis in the world."
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Source: Yemenwatch.net
