UN approves largest-ever emergency funding allocation to scale up response in war-torn Yemen

5 January 2018 – Despite progress over the past month in opening Yemen’s
Red Sea ports to commercial and aid shipments, the United Nations relief
chief on Friday approved the largest-ever emergency relief allocation – $50
million – amid concerns that the humanitarian catastrophe in the war-raved
country is being made worse by the recent increase in fighting and airstrikes.
“These funds will help to save lives,” declared UN Emergency Relief
Coordinator Mark Lowcock as he announced that the funding would rapidly
bolster the response for some 22 million people in Yemen who need
humanitarian assistance, including more than eight million who are “a step
away from famine.

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