
WFP set to cut food rations to eight million in Yemen
The UN World Food Programme has warned it is running out of funds to keep helping nourish the neediest in war-wracked Yemen and will be cutting food aid to eight million people next month.
The UN World Food Programme has warned it is running out of funds to keep helping nourish the neediest in war-wracked Yemen and will be cutting food aid to eight million people next month.
Foreign minister Luigi Di Maio on Thursday called for a UN-brokered solution to Yemen's almost-seven-year-old civil war, underlining Italy's "deep concern" at the "grave" humanitarian consequences of the conflict.
Tra i finalisti la prima concorrente nata in Yemen "ma col cognome leghista" e il ragazzo con la gonna che "sfida i pregiudizi"
The Qatar Fund for Development has agreed to donate 90 million dollars to Yemen, where over half the population faces severe hunger and five million people are on the brink of famine, the UN World Food Programme said Thursday in a statement.
The Italian government on Wednesday praised Saudi Arabia's proposal for a ceasefire in war-torn Yemen, where millions face famine, calling it an "important signal" amid the country's "dramatic" six-year-old conflict.
Yemen is heading for "the biggest famine in modern history" and 400,000 children could die this year in the war-ravaged country unless nations act and a US-backed Saudi blockade is lifted, a top UN official warned on Thursday.
Famine is looming in war-wracked Yemen, where 16 million people - over half the population - already don't know where their next meal is coming from, David Beasley, Rome-based UN World Food Programme chief, stated on Thursday.
Up to five million people in Yemen don't know where their next meal is coming from and famine is menacing some areas of the war-ravaged country, the United Nations warned on Monday.
Italy and other countries should keep working with the United Nations, which has the ability to help stabilise conflict zones from Libya to Syria, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday.
The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures show hunger has reached record levels in the war-torn country, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme and UNICEF warned on Thursday.
Severe child malnutrition has reached record highs in war-torn Yemen, where 20% of under-fives in some areas require treatment urgently, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Tuesday.
ADEN, Yemen, 15 settembre 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Per soddisfare le esigenze di circa 1,5 milioni di persone che abitano nella capitale provvisoria dello Yemen, Aden, e nei suoi dintorni, il Programma di sviluppo e ricostruzione saudita per lo Yemen (SDRPY) sta espandendo e sviluppando l'uso delle risorse idriche ad Al-Manasra. Dopo aver completato un progetto per riabilitare e rendere operativi 10 pozzi, l'SDRPY ora ne perforerà ed equipaggerà altri 5.
The head of the United Nations World Food Programme on Monday warned that war-torn Yemen, where millions are sliding towards starvation, is on the brink of disaster.
RIYADH, 4 settembre 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Il Programma di sviluppo e ricostruzione saudita per lo Yemen (SDRPY, Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen) ha firmato un memorandum di cooperazione con la Marib Girls' Foundation a sostegno della sua visione di empowerment economico delle donne attraverso il "Progetto Saba per l'empowerment economico delle donne yemenite", utilizzando le best practice per qualificare le donne yemenite ad avviare iniziative per alleviare le sofferenze del...
RIAD, Arabia Saudita, 27 luglio 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Giovedì il Programma saudita per lo sviluppo e la ricostruzione dello Yemen [Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY)], su invito del Programma di sviluppo delle Nazioni Unite (PSNU), ha partecipato a una riunione virtuale di donatori internazionali dedicata alle priorità di sviluppo a seguito della pandemia di COVID-19, con enfasi sul neonato quadro socioeconomico in Yemen. La coordinatrice umanitaria ONU in Yemen, Lise G...
RIYADH, Arabia Saudita, 26 giugno 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Il Programma di sviluppo e ricostruzione saudita per lo Yemen (SDRPY, Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen) ha stretto un accordo con il Programma delle Nazioni Unite per lo sviluppo (UNDP) a seguito di un incontro avvenuto mercoledì scorso tra l'ambasciatore Mohammed bin Saeed Al Jaber, supervisore dello SDRPY, e Nahed Hussein, vice rappresentante residente dell'UNDP.