UN to cut aid to Yemen 

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced yesterday that it would soon have to reduce the volume of food aid provided to 11 million Yemenis due to lack of funding.

“Funding shortages are threatening to cut lifesaving support for millions of people in Yemen,” OCHA said on Twitter, noting that 11 million people would “soon have to rely on reduced food rations and 4.6 million could lose access to clean water.”

#Yemen: Funding shortages are threatening to cut lifesaving support for millions of people.

Soon, 11M people will have to rely on reduced food rations & 4.6M could lose access to clean water.

Further cuts are expected unless funding is urgently received.

— OCHA Yemen (@OCHAYemen) February 7, 2022

The humanitarian organisation added that further cuts were expected “unless additional support is urgently received.”

The UN World Food Programme recently said that eight million Yemenis would receive reduced food rations “as of January 2022, due to lack of funding,” warning that five million Yemenis were “at risk of starvation.”

Impoverished Yemen has been mired in a war between government forces and the Houthi forces, which have controlled governorates, including the capital, since September 2014. The conflict escalated when a Saudi-led coalition intervened to back the government forces in March 2015.

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