Germany grants €500,000 for Saada displaced people

SANA'A, Sep. 04 (Saba) - German
Ministry of Foreign has announced about €500,000 as humanitarian aid for displaced
people
fled from Saada conflict, northern Yemen, Newsyemen website has reported.
The Ministry said that the aid intends to provide the displaced people with safe
water, secured shelters, medicines and other stuffs to be delivered through the
International
Committee Red Crescent (ICRC) and other humanitarian organizations.
The United Nations (UN) has suggested the Yemeni government for ceasing fire for
several hours a day in the northern governorate of Saada in an attempt to enable
relief
organizations to provide the war-affected people with aid.
The UNDP representative in the country Pratibha Mehta has called the two parts to
work to provide safe routes to allow in relief materials for thousands of people.
Al-Houthi rebels have been launching intermittent wars against the troops since 2004.
The wars have killed thousands of people, soldiers and insurgents in Saada
province, which located close to borders with Saudi Arabia, after the rebel group
was founded
by rebellion's leader Hussein al-Houthi.
Hussein, the eldest brother of the current group leader Abdul-Malik, was killed by
the army in September 2004.
The Yemeni government accuses the Houthi group of trying to reinstall the rule of
imams, which was toppled by a republican revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.
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