The UN said on Wednesday that it has cut vital aid to 300 healthcare facilities across Yemen, and cuts have also been made to the UN’s food distribution services. The cuts come as the US-backed Saudi war on Yemen continues to rage. The war has shattered Yemen’s medical infrastructure, caused the largest modern-day cholera outbreak, and has left the civilian population severely food insecure.
Between April and August, the UN closed or reduced more than one-third of its humanitarian programs in Yemen. If the UN does not receive more funding in the coming weeks, additional cuts are expected. The UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Yemen said they have only received $1 billion of the $3.2 billion necessary to fund these programs.
The UN has been pressuring Saudi Arabia and the UAE to deliver on aid they promised for Yemen, but the UN has not seen the full amounts. The US also slashed aid to Yemen earlier in the year, citing Houthi obstruction, but most of the food-insecure population lives in these areas.
The UN has warned of an impending famine in Yemen if they cannot raise more funds for programs in Yemen. Although the UN has not declared the situation in Yemen a famine, they do call it the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” and civilians have been starving to death in the country for years.
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.
UN is assisting in genocide in Yemen. Wow!
The UN is a useless talking club subservient to the Evil Hegemon.
Don’t blame the U.N. The U.S. is leading a boycott against funding aid programs and the Gulf States are not meeting their pledge obligations. You can make private donations https://yemen.un.org/en/about/about-the-un I know it’s a burocratic nightmare but I will figure it out this weekend. I will probably choose this sub-organization https://www.wfp.org/
If you do not trust the UN there is the Islamic Relief Fung, https://irusa.org/ I’ll split my donation between the two.
“We protect Saudi Arabia. Would you say they’re rich. And I love the King, King Salman. But I said ‘King – we’re protecting you – you might not be there for two weeks without us – you have to pay for your military,’” Trump said to cheers at a rally in Southaven, Mississippi.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-saudi-idUSKCN1MD066
The Don can threaten when he wants other countries to pay for their military but not so much when it comes to stopping the worst humanitarian disaster on the planet.
This is just one more example of why the USA will always continue to pay the lions share of UN taxes and expenses. Even if we happen to have a President who always threatens to withdraw funds? It’s just political rhetoric. We pay all that we do to ensure that things get done our way. And of course, Israel’s way.
Why don’t all the Christians backing president Trump Ask him to send 1/2 as much aid to stop the starvation n Yemen as aid given to Saudi Arabia to destroy Yemen .