UN Facing 'Unprecedented' Aid Funding Shortages in Yemen

Displaced Yemenis receive aids of tents, mattresses and bedding, after their camp was exposed to heavy rain that damaged their tents, in the Khokha district of the country's war-ravaged western province of Hodeidah, on August 12, 2022. (AFP)

The United Nations said its humanitarian agencies are facing the “biggest funding gap ever” in Yemen, warning of the risk of a sharp rise in humanitarian needs across the war-torn country - including the risk of famine in some areas - unless additional funding is secured.

The latest report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that by the end of July the 2022 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) secured $1.24 billion or 29% of the requested $4.27 billion to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection services to 17.9 million people.