United Nations: Yemen needs more aid than Syria for first time
06 December 2018| 28 Rabi ul Awwal 1440|Middle East Monitor
The United Nations said on Tuesday that Yemen will need more humanitarian aid than Syria for the first time next year, 2019.
A report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the international organization needs more than $4 billion to provide basic aid to Yemen in 2019 compared to $3.5 billion needed for Syria.
“The situation in Yemen has dramatically deteriorated and is rapidly worsening,” it said, noting that a majority of the population is facing food deficit.
More than one-third of the country’s 24 million people suffer from extreme poverty, the report said.
According to the report, facing humanitarian crises in various parts of the world next year will require $ 25 billion.
For years Syria ranked first in terms of receiving UN humanitarian aid.
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