The Yemeni response to WFP’s exploiting suffering of Yemeni people
YemenExtra
Y.A
Spokesman for the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights Talat al-Sharjabi said that the threats of the World Food Program (WFP)’s President to stop distributing relief aid portend a major humanitarian disaster in Yemen.
“We are deeply saddened by the recent statements made by the program director and his threat to stop relief activities in some areas of Yemen,” al-Sharjabi added in a statement to YemenExtra.
“The WFP is no longer carrying out a humanitarian operation (in Yemen), but its activities have rather become purely political. It is advancing the agendas of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and the United States,” NAMCHA said in a statement published by Lebanon-based and Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network on Tuesday.
The statement added, “The donors and financiers of the WFP are the countries participating in the aggression on Yemen, led by America, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.”
Tribes and sheikhs of Ibb province held a protest rally in to condemn of the World Food Program(WFP)’s threats and exploitation of the suffering of the Yemeni people due to the war and siege imposed by the coalition on Yemen.
At the rally, the protesters denounced the and international community’s complicity and silence towards expired foodstuffs and humanitarian aid provided by the WFP to Yemen, hailing great achievements made by security services and specialized officials in disclosing and confiscated the aid in several provinces.
Deputy Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Yahya Qarwash said that “there are trends to respond to the threats of the World Food Program (WFP) to stop the program in Yemen, through activating hundreds of agricultural cooperative associations for the production of grain.
“In the coming days, the ministry will launch 35 agricultural cooperative associations in cooperation with the general Organization for the development and production of cereals in various provinces,” Yahya Qarwash told Yemen Press Agency on Monday.
Member of the Supreme Political Council (SPC) Mohammed Ali al-Houthi rejected the participation of the World Food Program provision of rotten relief aid or in actions that go against the laws and sovereignty of the Republic of Yemen.
We welcome Partnership on the right and basic foundations and proper procedures, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said.
“We tell the organizations to replace your rotten food aid in cash and we are with the mechanism that secure real control according to the law,” al-Houthi wrote on Twitter on Monday, referring to the World Food Program.
A vigil was organized in front of the United Nations Office in Sanaa, in which the participants condemned the corruption of the World Food Program (WFP) and international organizations exploiting the humanitarian situation in Yemen.
Dozens of representatives of official bodies, ministries, institutions, civil society organizations, public and community actors and different sectors participated in the vigil, which was held under the slogan “We will not give up our dignity for crumbs of aid.”
The Yemen Standardization Metrology & Quality Control Organization (YSMO) at the port of Hodeidah seized the vessel SK FRIENDSHIP, which was caught carrying 120,000 sachets of wheat flour unsuitable for human consumption. The YSMO obligated the ship’s captain to return the shipment to the exporting country.
In a statement obtained by YemenExtra, the organization said that the materials belong the World Food Program (WFP).
Residents of Al-Dhahir district in Hajjah province, northern Yemen staged a protest condemning the threats made by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to stop the distribution of relief aid in the areas Supreme Political Council controled areas.
They rejected the contaminated food that some organizations have given to citizens, and field results of the inspection teams have shown that WFP assistance is rotten and unfit for human use.
Spokesman for the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights Talat al-Sharjabi said that the threats of the World Food Program (WFP)’s President to stop the distribution of relief aid portend a major humanitarian disaster in Yemen.
“We are deeply saddened by the recent statements made by the program director and his threat to stop relief activities in some areas of Yemen,” al-Sharjabi added .
In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.
Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
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