Yemen live the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, UN figures and indicators

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We will witness the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, and unless the world moves to stop the war in Yemen, the disastrous humanitarian situation is likely to deteriorate further

The United Nations summarized Yemen in 2018 as the year that would record the largest, deepest and worst humanitarian crisis in the world and provided the international community with a budget of nearly $ 3 billion – $ 2.96 billion – covering 9 key aspects of the ongoing aggression on Yemen and the effects of the continuation of the blockade since March 2015

Yemen’s humanitarian response plan for 2018 aims to provide humanitarian needs and assistance to millions of people in need assistance, half of whom are in urgent need, others in dire need. The plan seeks to provide assistance to at least 13 million people

The food security and agriculture sector is at the top of the plan, needs a total of $ 1.2 billion. In this sector, the total number of people in need of assistance is 17 million. The UN plan seeks to provide assistance to 8.8 million Only 8.4 million of them are in dire need

In the health sector, the plan says 16 million people need health assistance. The plan, through the allocation of $ 12.34 million for the UN plan, will provide assistance to 11.6 million people in the event of acute need for health assistance for survival among those 2 million children and 1 million A woman who is pregnant and lactating.

On the water side, the UN plan indicates that some 16 million Yemenis are in need of clean drinking water. The plan allocates $ 298.85 million to provide drinking water for $ 934 million, and 12.3 from the previous figure are in the case of a strong need for regular supply of clean water.

The UN plan argues that the collapse of urban water and sanitation systems contributed to the worsening of the disaster and the outbreak of a cholera epidemic last year, the biggest outbreak of cholera in the world.

The UN Health Plan for Health Nutrition, which benefits the center of both children and women, allocates $ 195 million and aims to provide healthy nutrition for 5.6 million newborns and under-3s in this category if the need for healthy nutrition A live.

UN indicators say 1.8 million children and 1.1 million pregnant or breastfeeding women are severely malnourished, of whom 400,000 are children under the age of five.

In the United Nations, about 2.9 million people are in need of acute malnutrition in 2018.

In the education sector, the UN plan refers to the difficult start of the 2017 and 2018 academic year in 13 governorates due to non-payment of teachers’ salaries. The plan estimates that there are 4.1 million children in need of assistance to continue their education, and the United Nations plan allocates $ 53.45 million to the sector.

The humanitarian response plan for 2018 includes provision in the protection and livelihood sectors, where 8.4 million people are in need of livelihood assistance to meet their basic needs while the plan provides for 5 million people living in severely affected areas.

And the irony in the United Nations humanitarian indicators for 2018, where Aden is registered in the highest Yemeni province in the proportion of people protesting to help and a severe deficiency of 60% of the population compared to the capital Sanaa, where the proportion is reduced to 40%, which is evidence of the human tragedy experienced by the Yemeni provinces under the occupier.,

Sa’ada province was ranked second in terms of severe destitution as a result of continuous shelling by the aggression’s Air Force on a daily basis and the systematic destruction of life components to push the local community into a state of extreme poverty and force them to flee the province.

According to UN indicators, about 107 districts – 32% of the total number of Yemen’s province – are highly vulnerable to famine and 17 million people in these districts are in dire need of assistance, including 2.4 million children under the age of five.

UN officials stress that the restrictions imposed by the aggression on the entry of basic materials and fuel into Yemen impose severe and additional burdens and pressure on humanitarian programs of international organizations, which pays to cut more money to provide fuel and delivery of aid.

The lack of salaries for almost a year and a half and the lack of cash have been putting pressure on the collapsed economic system and threatening to make the living conditions of the already affected population a tragic situation that may be difficult to bear internationally.

While the United Nations hopes that the plan will be fully funded by 70% of the overall humanitarian response plan 2017, it affirms that humanitarian action alone will not be able to cope with the consequences of the world’s deepest and greatest humanitarian crisis in 2018.

US-Saudi coalition against Yemen started on March 26, 2015. The air strikes of the coalition targeted tens of thousands of civilians, including women and children.

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