Over 15 million Yemenis need to clean water, sanitation services: OCHA

SANAA, Aug. 24 (YPA) – The United Nations has confirmed that over 15 million Yemenis need to clean water and sanitation services, as a result of the war waged by the coalition against Yemen, for the ninth consecutive year.

“However, the water and sanitation group is still 28 percent funded,” the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Yemen said on Wednesday, via “X” platform, (formerly Twitter).

On the last Saturday, the United Nations warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, due to the severe shortage in funding for its humanitarian and relief projects, calling on donors for urgent intervention to cover the funding gap in the Humanitarian Response Plan, noting that the plan funded only 30 percent.

On February 27, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, announced, at the conclusion of the “Yemen Donors” conference in Geneva, that “the United Nations has only succeeded in raising $1.2 billion within a UN plan estimated at $4.3 billion that Yemen needs in 2023.

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