WFP threatens to cause humanitarian disaster in Yemen: Human Rights Minister

SANAA, June 20 (YPA) – Spokesman for the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights Talat al-Sharjabi on Thursday said that the threats of the World Food Program (WFP)’s President to stop the distribution of relief aid portend a major humanitarian disaster in Yemen.

“We are deeply saddened by the recent statements made by the program director and his threat to stop relief activities in some areas of Yemen,” al-Sharjabi added in a statement to Yemen Press Agency.

He said that such threats in case they were translated in practice would have catastrophic effects on millions of Yemenis, in a country suffering from the blockade for five years and the interuption of the employees’ salaries since 2016.

“The situation requires redoubling efforts to provide the basic necessities to save millions of Yemenis from death or starvation,” he explained.

He indicated that 80 percent of Yemen’s 30 million people are threatened with death, and eight million Yemenis are living on relief aid.

The spokesman called on the local authorities and international bodies to search an appropriate mechanism to promote the principle of transparency in the humanitarian action in Yemen.

YPA