Yemen: UNHCR Operational Update, 1 April 2021
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Over 4 million internally displaced
Over 80 per cent have been displaced for more than a year
20,496 individuals
Children and women represent up to 79 per cent of the total IDP population
126,884 refugees
IDP Response
During the reporting period, UNHCR distributed emergency shelter kits to some 1,100 individuals displaced due to fighting in Marib and Al Dhale governorates. Hostilities have intensified significantly accross Ma’rib, leading to the displacement of 1,704 households so far this year. UNHCR has further dispatched 1,000 core relief items kits and 1,500 enhanced emergency shelter kits to Marib for further distribution. In the coming week, UNHCR field staff and partners also plan to distribute core relief items to some 2,000 displaced families in Sa’ada and Sana’a governorates.
February 13, 2021
A three-month-old baby is treated for severe acute malnutrition at the UNICEF-suppported Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen. courtesy UNICEF/Ahmed Haleem
GENEVA Since the escalation of conflict in 2015, severe acute malnutrition is among its highest levels in Yemen, threating the lives of half of the country’s children under the age of five, four UN agencies warned on Friday.
Nearly 2.3 million children under-five are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition this year, 400,000 of whom could die if they do not receive urgent treatment.
“The crisis in Yemen is a toxic mix of conflict, economic collapse and a severe shortage of funding to provide the life-saving help that’s desperately needed”, said World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley, calling the high numbers “yet another cry for help” from a country where “each malnourished child also means a family struggling to survive”.
Sat 13th February 2021 | 12:20 PM
UNITED NATIONS, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Feb, 2021 ) :More than two million Yemeni children under the age of five are expected to suffer acute malnutrition this year, which maylead to the death of 400,000 of them, according to a joint report issued by four United Nations agencies.
The report, published by the World Food Programme (WFP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), details war-torn Yemen s urgent need for humanitarian assistance from abroad. The crisis in Yemen is a toxic mix of conflict, economic collapse and a severe shortage of funding to provide the life-saving help that s desperately needed , WFP Executive Director David Beasley said, calling the high numbers yet another cry for help from a country where each malnourished child also means a family struggling to survive .
English News and Press Release on Yemen about Food and Nutrition, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 12 Feb 2021 by FAO, UNICEF and 3 other organizations