UN calls for urgent funding to avert Humanitarian disaster in Yemen

The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, Natalia Kanem, called on the parties to the conflict in Yemen to actively contribute to achieving peace.

Kanem also called on donors to double their funding for aid in Yemen.

During a press conference held on Saturday in Aden, the interim capital of Yemen,  the UN official said that she would look directly at the repercussions of the humanitarian situation, especially on women and girls, and the response that relief workers undertake to alleviate the suffering of people under extremely difficult circumstances, explaining that her tour includes several facilities in Aden.

She reiterated the continued efforts of the United Nations and the United Nations Population Fund to provide assistance, especially to women and girls, as a result of the humanitarian crisis, and to undertake efforts to combat gender-based violence, enhance adherence to ethical standards and assess priorities according to human suffering, expressing concern about the specter of starvation and malnutrition.

Kanem confirmed that a woman dies every two hours in Yemen due to the deterioration of the health sector in Yemen, pointing out that only 20% of health facilities in Yemen are competent to provide services in the field of motherhood and childhood.

It reviewed the international efforts in Yemen in the field of providing reproductive health assistance, supporting more than half of the health centers operating with requirements and incentives for their workers, providing protection services in general, and supporting 10 mental and mental health centers, camp support and other aids.

On the other hand, Yemeni Minister of Information Muammar Al-Eryani attacked the Houthi "Ansar Allah" group, accusing it of carrying out "forced recruitment" operations in the areas under its control for the benefit of its forces in the Ma'rib governorate.

Al-Eryani said, on his Twitter account on Saturday, that "local reports confirm that the Houthis carried out large-scale forced recruitment operations in the kidnapped capital, Sanaa, and the rest of its areas of control, including citizens, school and university students, employees, workers and tribesmen, and pressure on school principals, sheiks and senior residential neighborhoods ".