UN to launch Yemen's food security plan January

SANA'A, Dec. 20 (Saba) - United Nations (UN) is to launch next January Yemen's plan for humanitarian responding to offer the
early aid program to around 1.4 million people suffering from lacking of food security in Yemen, the ruling party-run Almotamar.net has reported.

The plan would include the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) due to the rebellion
in Sa'ada governorate, nearly 200,000 according to UN estimates, and over 162,000
refugees,
most of them are from the Horn of Africa region.
In the document of Yemen's plan for humanitarian response, the UN revealed that the
necessary requirements for achieving the plan's main priorities would amount to
$177.4
million.
The amount is to be granted by 21 international, regional and local organizations
to carry out 76 projects in areas of food, agriculture, nutrition, health,
protection,
education, lodging, non-food materials, coordination and running camps, waters and
sewage, general cleanliness, early recovery and coordination and services of
support.
The document showed that urgent humanitarian needs have aggravated due to the armed
confrontations erupted last August between the Yemeni government and the Houthi
rebels
in northern governorate of Sa'ada.
The humanitarian situation in Sa'ada has deteriorated rapidly and caused fleeing
tens of thousands of civilians in addition to those previously displaced because of
previous
rounds of fighting.
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