relief

Internally displaced women and children at a World Food Programme (EFP) center in Mogadishu, Somalia. Thousands of people poured into the Somali capital in mid-2017 in search for food and water at the severe drought takes hold in remote rural regions. Photo by Giles Clarke for Getty/OCHA

UN relief wing appeals for record $22.5 billion in aid for 2018

1 December 2017
Humanitarian Aid

A record level of aid funding – more than $22.5 billion – is needed to deliver lifesaving assistance around the world in 2018, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator said on Friday.

A farmer collects food ration for his family. An estimated 12 million Yemenis are food insecure.
WFP

12 million people in Yemen depend on aid for “their survival”

8 February 2017
General News

A US$2.1 billion appeal to help 12 million Yemenis who depend on aid “for their survival” has been launched by the UN and its humanitarian partners.

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