WFP Yemen Situation Report #8
In numbers
19 million people food insecure
161,000 people in famine-like conditions
3.5 million people acutely malnourished
3.1 million people assisted by WFP in August
Highlights
• WFP plans to resume its Resilience and Livelihoods activity in Yemen, suspended earlier this year due to funding shortfalls, supported by a EUR 30 million contribution from Germany.
• Under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a WFP-chartered vessel departed Ukraine on 30 August with 37,000 metric tons of wheat bound for WFP’s general food assistance programme in Yemen.
• WFP and partners continued in August to respond to floods which has impacted more than 360,000 people across Yemen.
Sana’a — Fuel and food imports into ports under the control of Yemen’s Houthi movement on the Red Sea have continued to fall for…
ADEN — Yemen Airways, the country’s national carrier, announced it will resume flights between Aden and Abu Dhabi beginning in January…
Aden — The United States Ambassador to Yemen underscored the critical importance of safeguarding the independence of the Central Bank of Yeme…