Yemen Donors Conference Raises Even Less Money for Yemen Humanitarian Relief than Was Provided Last Year<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 2, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014The UN donors conference which convened yesterday to raise funds for relief efforts in Yemen, cosponsored by Sweden and Switzerland, failed to raise even half of the $3.85 billion that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres appealed for. Pledges amounted to a total of $1.7 billion, even less than the $1.9 billion that was donated in 2020. Guterres called for countries to \u201cconsider again what they can do to help stave off the worst famine the world has seen in decades.\u201d Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who is on a week-long visit to Yemen, also called the outcome of the conference \u201cdisappointing,\u201d warning that the lack of funding would cause huge cuts to Yemen aid. \u201cThe shortfall in humanitarian aid will be measured in lives lost,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Saudis pledged $430 million; the U.S. promised $191 million, reportedly a decrease of $35 million from last year. The reduction in aid is attributed to the pandemic, corruption allegations, and concerns the aid might not be reaching its intended recipients in territories controlled by the rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Houthi leadership dismissed the conference, saying that such donor meetings only aid the aggressor countries and not the people of Yemen. \u201cConferences help aggressor states to identify themselves as obliging, not hostile or aggressor states which must end the siege and aggression,\u201d said Houthi spokesman Mohammad Abdul-Salam, reported Iran\u2019s Tasnim News Agency. He stressed in a twitter posting that stopping the aggression and lifting the blockade is the biggest help Yemen can ever receive. \u201cThe best services that the Saudi-led coalition provides to Yemen are nothing but daily airstrikes, brutal siege, the blockade of oil products and the closure of Sana\u2019a International Airport, and the human consequences thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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