MILLIONS IN YEMEN ARE IN CATASTROPHIC NEED #france #SAUDI #yemen #FAMINEe #HOUTHIS #forgotten #people #die #HUMANITARIANo #RESCUE
MILLIONS
IN YEMEN ARE IN CATASTROPHIC NEED
They
are the forgotten people.
And
many more will die for absolutely no reason.
“Unless this moment is seized we’re going to see many
more people die for absolutely no reason” David Miliband said to Becky
Anderson yesterday, March 29, 2021 on the TV program “Connect the World.
David Miliband is a British Public Policy Analyst and President
and Chief Executive Officer of the International Rescue Committee.
Do you want to guess what place in the world they were
discussing? That should be easy. Yemen, of course! Where else in the
world have children been dying from hunger and lack of medicines for years now?
Where else in the world are millions said to be in
catastrophic need?
Millions? Yes some 3.3 million human beings are in
catastrophic need as the Civil War rages on. There are many sides in the
conflict, but the war is a man-made catastrophe.
Miliband says the opening of Hodeida Port is a step in
the right direction. Meanwhile the King of Saudi Arabia has offered a solution.
Well-informed observers say there needs to be a national ceasefire.
“It is such a complex situation,” Becky Anderson
commented as Miliband went into details of what is going on.
“It is degrading and pushing people into starvation,” he
commented. “The cuts in aid have pushed people into starvation. It is the world’s
worst humanitarian crisis.”
The first step toward a solution, Miliband says is to stop
the fighting!
Then get aid going!
The Yemeni people have been forgotten.
Conflict is the order of the day.
Political settlement is crucial to solving the
humanitarian crisis.
The Yemeni Civil war is a multi-sided war that began in
late 2014 mainly between the Yemeni Government and the Houthi armed movement.
Both sides claim to be the official government of Yemen.
A report on France 24 (issued on 27 March 2021)
said: “Rally in rebel held Sanaa marks 6 years of war in Yemen.” Thousands
of people marched through Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Friday to mark the 6th
anniversary of a Saudi-led intervention against Houthi rebels as the United
Nations renewed calls for a cease-fire.
“According to international organizations since that time
tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced in what the
UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.”
On Monday Saudi Arabia offered the Houthis a comprehensive UN supervised
ceasefire to try and end the brutal conflict but the rebels have dismissed the
initiative as “nothing new” the report on France24 said.
“If they want peace they must stop their aggression and
end the blockade imposed on the Yemeni people,” a senior Houthi official has
said.
According to the latest UN figures “more than 16 million
Yemenis will face hunger this year and nearly 50,000 are already starving in
famine-like conditions. “Two-thirds of
the 29 million people in that country depend on some form of aid for survival.”
IT
DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THAT WAY.
#france #SAUDI #yemen #FAMINEe #HOUTHIS #forgotten #people #die #HUMANITARIANo #RESCUE
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