The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its partner Islamic Relief in Yemen have resumed food distributions this week to the war-affected people of the northern governorate of Sa’ada.
Distribution was suspended in March due to the deteriorating security situation in Sa’ada city. WFP and Islamic Relief are now able to work again in Sa’ada city and Al Malaheet, as well as – for the first time -- in the northern districts of Qatabir and Baqim, providing food mainly for internally displaced persons and returnees.
“This is a real breakthrough for humanitarian operations in Sa’ada governorate,” said Gian Carlo Cirri, WFP Representative and Country Director in Yemen. “Most of the new caseload that we are reaching out to now have been cut off from aid since the very beginning of the conflict in 2004. Our plan is to further increase our support to other districts and to reach, in the short term, a total number of 416,000 beneficiaries. We hope that it will stabilize a dire humanitarian situation,” he said.
WFP launched an emergency operation in northern Yemen in 2007 that has provided food assistance to more than 300,000 internally displaced persons including 60,000 children under the age of 5 across Sa’ada, Hajjah, Sana’a, Amran and Al Jawf governorates. With the addition of people in the districts the UN food agency has so far been unable to reach, numbers will increase by around 116,000.
WFP has been negotiating with community leaders to secure expanded access to the governorate’s population, beyond the two traditional distribution centres in Sa’ada City and Malaheet.
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