The “World Food” reduces its aid to the Yemenis, claiming lack of funding

Posted on August 18, 2023
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The United Nations World Food Program announced today, Friday, that it will reduce the food aid it provides to the Yemeni people, starting at the end of next September, on allegations of lack of funding as part of the international identification with the plans of the countries of aggression aimed at starving the Yemeni people.

According to the World Food Program, more than 17 million people suffer from food insecurity, out of a total population of the country estimated at about 30 million, and 2.2 million children under five and one million women need treatment due to acute malnutrition.

In June 2022, the World Food Program reduced its aid, to less than 50%, to Yemenis as well with allegations of lack of funding.

Observers believe that this step comes to put pressure on the Yemeni people to make concessions to the forces of aggression, noting that the lack of funding is not a justification for that, especially since 80% of the external grants go as operating expenses of the United Nations and its organizations, and only 20% reaches the Yemeni people.

The program claimed in a statement that it “is facing an acute funding crisis for its humanitarian operations in Yemen, which will necessitate further reduction of food assistance provided by the World Food Program, throughout the country, starting from the end of September.

In the absence of new funding, the program expects that “nearly 3 million people will be affected in the regions north of Yemen, and about 1.4 million people in the regions south of it,” including a large number of children and girls, and pregnant and lactating women.