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85422
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:16
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Children at Mezraq camp suffer from malnutrition: UNICEF says
SANA'A, Oct. 20 (Saba)
- UNICEF has found that 10 percent of children at Mezraq camp in Hajjah province are
suffering
from malnutrition, after examining more than 1,000 children there, the UNICEF
Regional Goodwill Ambassador Mahmoud Kabil said Tuesday.
In a press conference, Kabil called on donors as well as the international
organizations to support the efforts to help the internally displaced persons
(IDPs) of Sa'ada
and Harf Sofyan.
He also affirmed the importance of promoting the joint humanitarian efforts between
the government and international organizations working in relief field to meet the
growing
needs of Sa'ada IDPs from medicines, foodstuffs and tents.
The ambassador hailed Yemen's efforts as well as all governorates' people in
providing the relief aid to those people, praising the significant role of the
popular relief
convoys to Sa'ada.
UNICEF efforts focuses on providing safe drinking water and health facilities
besides educational support, he added.
He also made clear that the UNICEF asked previously donors to prop up these efforts
by providing $ 6 million to finance these efforts but only $2.9 million have
reached
yet.
Kabil also called on Yemeni and Arab media to transfer a clear image on the
suffering of the displaced people in the camps.
Kabil is currently visiting Yemen for inspecting the IDPs conditions in the north
and paid a visit to the displaced camp in Hajjah on Monday.
There are more than 150,000 refugees in the northern provinces of Saada, Amran and
Hajjah due to the fight between the army and the Houthi insurgents.
The army has been battling the rebels since 2004. Since then, thousands of people,
soldiers and insurgents have been killed in Saada province and Harf Sufian in Amran
province,
after the rebel group was founded by rebel 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 al-Houthi group of trying to re-install the rule
of imams, which was toppled by a republican revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.
FJ/AF
- UNICEF has found that 10 percent of children at Mezraq camp in Hajjah province are
suffering
from malnutrition, after examining more than 1,000 children there, the UNICEF
Regional Goodwill Ambassador Mahmoud Kabil said Tuesday.
In a press conference, Kabil called on donors as well as the international
organizations to support the efforts to help the internally displaced persons
(IDPs) of Sa'ada
and Harf Sofyan.
He also affirmed the importance of promoting the joint humanitarian efforts between
the government and international organizations working in relief field to meet the
growing
needs of Sa'ada IDPs from medicines, foodstuffs and tents.
The ambassador hailed Yemen's efforts as well as all governorates' people in
providing the relief aid to those people, praising the significant role of the
popular relief
convoys to Sa'ada.
UNICEF efforts focuses on providing safe drinking water and health facilities
besides educational support, he added.
He also made clear that the UNICEF asked previously donors to prop up these efforts
by providing $ 6 million to finance these efforts but only $2.9 million have
reached
yet.
Kabil also called on Yemeni and Arab media to transfer a clear image on the
suffering of the displaced people in the camps.
Kabil is currently visiting Yemen for inspecting the IDPs conditions in the north
and paid a visit to the displaced camp in Hajjah on Monday.
There are more than 150,000 refugees in the northern provinces of Saada, Amran and
Hajjah due to the fight between the army and the Houthi insurgents.
The army has been battling the rebels since 2004. Since then, thousands of people,
soldiers and insurgents have been killed in Saada province and Harf Sufian in Amran
province,
after the rebel group was founded by rebel 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 al-Houthi group of trying to re-install the rule
of imams, which was toppled by a republican revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.
FJ/AF
