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The State of Qatar, represented by Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) pledged $20m in financial support to alleviate the humanitarian suffering of the brotherly Yemeni people.
This came during a meeting held in Geneva Wednesday, organized by the United Nations in cooperation with the Governments of Switzerland and Sweden, and in which Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and a number of politicians and high-level officials, participated to mobilize resources and to announce the volume of donations to help and alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.
On this occasion, the Director General of (QFFD), Khalifa bin Jassim Al Kuwari, praised the efforts exerted by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.
Al Kuwari pointed out that the Qatari financial commitment comes within the framework of supporting the inter-agency 2018 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan. He called for the need for friendly countries to respond to the suffering of the brotherly people of Yemen, and added that this crisis is a great humanitarian catastrophe not only in the Middle East, but in the entire world.
The United Nations and its humanitarian agencies working on the ground in Yemen have appealed to donors to provide $2.96bn in funding to support the basic sectors of food security, health, water, sanitation and protection, as the bloody conflict in Yemen left 22 million people in desperate need of humanitarian assistance and protection.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
