UN makes deal with Yemen rebels on food supplies

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More than 20-million people are food insecure after four years of civil war

New York — The World Food Programme has reached an agreement in principle with Yemen’s Huthi rebels to resume food aid to areas they control, the agency’s chief said on Thursday.

The new agreement with the Huthis will allow food to be quickly delivered to the rebel-held capital Sanaa, though the two sides have not formally inked the deal yet, WFP chief David Beasley told the UN security council. “Around 30-million people live in Yemen, and more than two-thirds of them are food insecure. That’s 20-million women, men, boys and girls,” he said.

Mark Lowcock, the UN’s humanitarian chief, said that international commitments of aid to Yemen were not being honoured.

 

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