UN Delivers Food For 9.5million In Yemen In December

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The UN food agency delivered emergency food and vouchers for more than 9.5 million people in Yemen in December, just shy of its 10 million monthly target in the famine-threatened country, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

Yemen’s nearly four-year war and economic collapse have left 15.9 million people, 53 per cent of the population, facing “severe acute food insecurity’’, and famine looms if immediate action is not taken, a survey said in December.

“We were at a bit less than 10 million because the actual situation slowed down a bit the distribution in some areas.

“The security is not as good as expected in some areas,” World Food Programme spokesman, Herve Verhoosel, said a Geneva news conference.

“Some of our trucks were also stopped for longer than usual in some security checkpoints.”

Verhoosel later clarified that the figures represented food aid that was “dispatched’’ to local distribution centres across Yemen but not all had been handed out to recipients…



Source: Leadership Newspaper