YEMEN Press Agency

225,000+ families need food in Sanaa

SANAA, Jan. 30 (YPA) – The director of the National Authority for Humanitarian Affairs in capital Sanaa, Abdul Wahab Sharaf al-Din, warned of the worsening humanitarian situation that is heading towards the real humanitarian disaster in Yemen.
In an interview with Yemen Press Agency, Sharaf al-Din said that the World Food Program targets 83,000 households monthly, and that the proportion of the humanitarian need for food reached 65% and over 225,000 families in the capital Sana’a.
He indicated that the poor international deal with the humanitarian file in Yemen seriously threatens the humanitarian situation, and can not be prevented or controlled at all.
Sharaf al-Din explained that the humanitarian intervention in Yemen did not rise to the level and magnitude of the food disaster which the Yemeni people suffered, who needs an emergency response and rapid, according to UN reports.
He added that the Commission implements the comprehensive survey plan during the year 2019, in order to assess the nature of the need and knowledge of the problems, pointing out that there is a wider intervention of the World Food Program.
Sharaf al-Din called on the Director of the United Nations humanitarian organizations to strip from the political subordination, and to enable it to perform its humanitarian functions correctly in Yemen.

 

Sameera Hassn