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YEMEN / FAMINE PREVENTION APPEAL
STORY: YEMEN / FAMINE PREVENTION APPEAL
TRT: 2:29
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC /ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 11-12 MARCH 2017, SANAA / 28 FEBRUARY-8 MARCH, ADEN, YEMEN
28 FEBRUARY 2017, ADEN, YEMEN
1. Various shots, people living in makeshift shelters
8 March 2017, ADEN, YEMEN
2. Various shots, children treated for malnutrition at Al Basateen health facility
12 MARCH 2017, BELAD AL ROOS DISTRICT, SANA’A, YEMEN
3. Wide shot, Walan Health Facility
4. Med shot, man with a child
5. Med shot, doctors with a child
6. Med shot, Coucil at the center
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director, WFP
“The situation today in Yemen is nothing less than dire, the numbers tell us the story, there are over 17 million people who are food insecure”
11 MARCH 2017, AL SABEEN GENERAL HOSPITAL, SANA’A, YEMEN
8. Wide shot, women with children in corridors
9. Various shots, malnourished children
12 MARCH 2017, SANA’A, YEMEN
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director, WFP
“The root cause of the situation here in Yemen is a conflict that should end. Without peace we can’t address sufficiently the food security situation in this country. People can’t feed themselves when there is an ongoing conflict.”
11. Wide shot, Sana’a skyline
12. Various shots, food distribution at Al Hamzi retail outlet
11 MARCH 2017, SANA’A, YEMEN
13. Wide shot, Jabar family
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdullah Mohammed Jabar, displaced from Hajjah:
“There were times we couldn’t find anything to eat. We have a lot of obligations, like paying the rent and feeding our children. I had no salary for five months.”
15. Various shots, children eating
During her visit to Yemen, the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, urged the international community to help prevent a looming famine crisis by providing resources to meet the immediate needs of the severely food insecure.
Cousin also pleaded with the warring parties and authorities in Aden and Sana’a for access to reach hungry people who will die if they do not receive food and nutrition support.
Cousin, who went to Aden and Sana’a on a three-day trip over the weekend, visited nutrition centres, health facilities and food distributions, where she met families struggling to feed their children.
She described the situation as “nothing less than dire, the numbers tell us the story, there are over 17 million people who are food insecure”
Yemen, Somalia and northeastern Nigeria are each on the brink of a famine. Last month, famine was declared to be affecting parts of Unity State in South Sudan.
Cousin described the situation in Yemen as heartbreaking.
Despite considerable access challenges, WFP reached a record number of 4.9 million food insecure people in Yemen in February. Because of inadequate funding WFP reduced the food ration to stretch assistance to more people.
As the poorest country in the region, Yemen has suffered from decades of chronic food insecurity, and the situation has deteriorated rapidly in the last two years due to the ongoing conflict.
The Executinve Director said,“The root cause of the situation here in Yemen is a conflict that should end. Without peace we can’t address sufficiently the food security situation in this country. People can’t feed themselves when there is an ongoing conflict.”
WFP appealed for US$950 million to support over seven million people in Yemen this year. Of this, WFP urgently requires nearly US$460 million from March to August to fully cover the food needs of the people it hopes to reach.
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