More than 50 House Democrats submitted a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging the Trump administration to restore aid to Yemen, where a civilian population is facing malnutrition caused by the US-backed Saudi-led war on the country.
The administration cut $73 million of aid to Yemen in March, citing Houthi obstruction. In the letter, the Democrats said this aid is more vital than ever because of the coronavirus pandemic, which the country is struggling to contain since the population lacks access to basic health services and clean water.
Government officials from the UK are also warning of the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab urged members to increase aid to the war-torn country.
“The country has never looked more likely to slide into famine,” Raab said. “Unless donors urgently act now and follow through on their pledges, hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of dying simply from starvation.”
Aid cuts to Yemen have been severe this year, and it has caused the UN to reduce or shut down 75 percent of its programs in the country. The UN is pleading with Saudi Arabia and the UAE to deliver aid money they have already pledged. But so far, the UN has not received the money and is warning of a looming famine.
While the UN has not officially declared a famine, civilians in Yemen have been starving to death for years now, due mainly to the conditions caused by the US-Saudi war and blockade. In 2018, Save the Children published a report that said as many as 85,000 children under the age of five died of starvation in Yemen between April 2015 and October 2018.
Hilarious how the US press is wailing over the general ignorance of US youth about “the” Holocaust. Yemen is hardly mentioned, and certainly the role of Biden and Obama in that genocide never mentioned. To be fair to American youth, they don’t know much about any holocaust, genocide(include that of Native Americans) or anything significant that contributed to their absurdly wasteful lifestyle(like plastic, fossil fuels or US military domination since 1945).
I am sorry about the Holocaust. But the Nazis basically succeeded. So what is anyone doing to make sure today’s Nazis don’t succeed? Not much.
Anyone taking the time to research the Yemen war can find its’ origins in the Obama administration, and can find congressional (democratic) action to limit it . Sorry if every article written doesn’t splash “Obama, Biden, or Clinton” everywhere when it has been trumps war for 4 f-ing years.
Well all the soccer moms dont know that.
Todays NAZIS certainly succeeded in destroying Yugoslavia this time . But no one said who the Nazis were .
Apparently “ending endless wars” is not on trumps policy radar, just on teleprompters. The Yemen war was the easiest, even having a bit of GOP support to end it.
Pompeo is full on evil. That fat bastard doesn’t give a damn how many Yemeni kids are starving…