The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs has warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis and escalating violent conflict in the impoverished Arab country.
“Although the United Nations has announced that humanitarian agencies are providing assistance to some 13 million Yemenis, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs says the Yemeni economy is on the verge of collapse,” Al Jazeera reported. As the humanitarian crisis in Yemen worsens, the conflict in this poorest country in the Arab world tends to escalate into more violence.
Ramesh Rajasningham added that humanitarian agencies are currently providing assistance to another 13 million people across Yemen, about 3 million more than a few months ago. “Our best assessment is that this increase [aid] will significantly reduce the immediate risk of drought.”
However, he warned that aid agencies did not have enough financial resources to continue the aid, and that in the coming weeks and months about 4 million Yemenis would see their food aid reduced, to 5 million by the end of this year. People will increase.
Yemen has been embroiled in a civil war since 2014 between forces loyal to ousted fugitive President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and Ansar al-Islam forces. The clashes escalated to the point where the Saudi aggressor coalition entered the war in March 2015, announcing Riyadh’s outspoken support for Mansour’s government and launching air and ground operations against Yemeni Ansar al-Islam forces, leading to the worst humanitarian crisis in the poor country in a century.
