Local Editor
In an ongoing struggle to avert famine in Yemen, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has managed to provide food assistance to a record seven million people across the country during the month of August 2017.
Two and a half years of Saudi bombing devastated Yemen’s infrastructure and undermined livelihoods, forcing more than two-thirds of the population – 17 million people – into hunger with seven million people on the brink of starvation and depending entirely on assistance to meet their most basic food needs.
“We are doing everything within our power to help avert famine in Yemen,” said WFP Representative and Country Director in Yemen Stephen Anderson. “Provided we receive sufficient funding as well as cooperation from all parties to the conflict to ensure regular access to Yemenis who are most in need, we can consolidate recent gains and continue to save many lives.”
But for the coming six months through March 2018, WFP is facing a funding shortfall of US$350 million.
Source: Relifweb, Edited by Website Team
