Middle East
Yemen food crisis: people left without aid
More money is urgently needed to help people affected by the food crisis in Yemen. Nearly a quarter of the population are in need of emergency aid to survive because they do not have enough food to eat.
- Tens of thousands of people will be left without aid in Yemen’s hunger crisis unless more money is urgently given to the aid effort.
Charities warn over Yemen's food crisisYemen is suffering from a food crisis so severe that over a quarter of a million children could die.
This May rich world pledged $4bn 2 help Yemen. Oxfam shelves aid for 340,000 ppl due 2 funding crisis #HungryinYemen oxfam.org.uk/media-centre/p…- Follow Oxfam's Caroline Gluck's journey through Yemen via social media
RT @carooxfam: #HungryinYemen Yemen's crisis worsening, #Oxfam responding but funding woes hamper response Listen to my podcast ipadio.com/phlogs/oxfam_e…Yemen crisis | Oxfam GB
Thousands of people in Yemen are facing a severe humanitarian crisis, widespread hunger and chronic malnutrition. Oxfam has been respon...
RT @oxfamgb: Over 10 million visitors are estimated to attend the 2012 Olympics. The same amount of people are #HungryinYemen- Yemen is now in the midst of its hunger season, before the next harvest in October. The start of Ramadan is also pushing up prices in markets and people cannot afford to buy it.
#HungerinYemen maj of people buy food on credit;shopkeepers buy stock on credit; costs higher as Ramadan nears +rising fuel prices
Children are being taken out of school to find work so that they can earn food for their families #HungryinYemen bit.ly/P7HjC9- #HungerinYemen date farmer said fuel to irrigate his date palms costs 3 times more than last yr coz of rising costs but crop size 20% less
- Oxfam is giving out cash grants to people affected by the food crisis but funds are limiting our emergency response. Oxfam’s programme to help over 300,000 people this July in the badly hit rural area of Al Hodeidah on Yemen’s west coast has been scaled back to help just 100,000.
- #HungryinYemen Hundreds of people got cash lifeline from #Oxfam 2day to help them thru hunger season but we cant reach everyone who needs it
“I blame crisis and situation 4 deaths of my children.We had no medicine+no food” #hungryinyemen bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
Saw a number of year old infants in hudayda that weighed less than most newborns...heart breaking #yemen #hungryinyemen- RT @imothanaYemen: Meeting mothers of children who died from malnutrition in Hodaida today was truly heartbreaking. I am utterly shocked! #HungryinYemen
Conflict in the north and south the country is also exacerbating the crisis. Over the last two months, nearly 95,000 people have been forced to leave their homes as a result of conflicts, bringing the number of people displaced in the country to close to half a million.
Yemen: Back home - but nowhere to stay | Blogs | Oxfam GB
For the past year, large parts of the southern province of Abyan have been virtual no-go zones, controlled by militant groups. More than ...- Although $4bn was pledged at the Friends of Yemen meeting in May, where world leaders met to discuss the country’s future, it is unclear how and when this money will be spent. But people in Yemen cannot survive on broken promises.
