Donors pledge additional $600 mln to avoid Yemen aid cuts

23/9/2021 7:16

        Donors pledged an additional $600 million to tackle Yemen's humanitarian crisis on Wednesday, as the United Nations and other aid agencies warned that vital aid programmes would be cut this year without more funding.
        
        This year's $3.85 billion aid response plan to what the U.N. describes as the world's largest humanitarian crisis had been only half funded before Wednesday's high-level U.N. meeting co-hosted by Sweden, Switzerland and the European Union.
        
        A significant gap in funding for the aid response in Yemen, which has been divided by seven years of war, opened up last year, forcing some aid programmes to close and the U.N. to warn of increasing risk of famine.