Yemen Monitor/Agencies:
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSA Relief) signed two cooperation agreements with two Yemeni civil society organizations on Monday. The two agreements aim to provide financial support worth 86.810 million Saudi Riyals (approximately $23.14 million USD) to alleviate food insecurity in the most affected Yemeni regions.
This support comes amid the suffering of millions in Yemen from hunger, as a result of several factors including a severe funding shortage, global inflation, the indirect repercussions of the war between the Yemeni government and the Houthis, in addition to recent escalations in the region.
The center clarified, according to the official Yemeni news agency, that this support will benefit 1.47 million people in 14 Yemeni governorates: Al Hudaidah, Taiz, Aden, Lahj, Al Dhale’e, Abyan, Shabwah, Socotra, Hadramout, Al Mahrah, Marib, Al Jawf, Hajjah, and Saada.
A report issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) at the beginning of last March indicated a rise in the rate of food shortage in government-controlled areas of Yemen to 53%, and in Houthi-controlled areas to 43.7%, meaning that “one in every two families finds it difficult to obtain their food needs.”
The report expected a further deterioration of the food situation in the coming period, coinciding with the peak of the dry season and the exacerbation of the economic crisis due to the decline in the value of the local currency and the rise in food prices in government-controlled areas.
