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UN / YEMEN BRAGG
STORY: UN / YEMEN BRAGG
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 2 DECEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
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2 DECEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Catherine Bragg, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“I must say that I am extremely concerned about millions of people around the country now facing a severe and worsening humanitarian crisis. This crisis is touching not only those people who are directly affected by conflict or displacement. What we are seeing now is chronic deprivation made worse by the breakdown of essential social services as a result of the political turmoil and violence. We are seeing rates of malnutrition in young children comparable to those in Somalia; a third of the population who doesn’t know where their next meal is coming from and a looming health crisis.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Catherine Bragg, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“In 2012, we and our partners will expand humanitarian programmes so that we can reach as many as possible of the 3.8 million people across Yemen needing life-saving aid. This figure includes internally displaced people, refugees, as well as the host communities.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Catherine Bragg, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We are not seeing the level of mortality rate as we have seen in, for example, Somalia. I tried, while I was in-country, I was trying very hard to find out why that is so, and there were a number of explanations that was given to me. The first one is that, because of the tribal culture in Yemen that has a cultural tradition of pulling coping mechanisms. That has been a huge factor in preventing the tipping over form an emergency level to a famine level.”
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Millions of people in Yemen are facing a “severe and worsening humanitarian crisis”, a senior United Nations relief official said today (2 December), warning that the situation is likely to deteriorate over the next year despite the recent accord to restore peace and stability.
Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Catherine Bragg told reporters in after a four-day visit to Yemen that “this crisis is touching not only those people who are directly affected by conflict or displacement” and there is now a state of “chronic deprivation made worse by the breakdown of essential social services as a result of the political turmoil and violence.”
Bragg, who is also Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that rates of malnutrition in young children are “comparable to those in Somalia” with a third of the population “who doesn’t know where their next meal is coming from.”
She noted that her office and its partners will expand humanitarian programmes in 2012 so that as many as possible of the 3.8 million people across Yemen needing life-saving aid can be reached.
Bragg explained that “because of the tribal culture in Yemen, that has a cultural tradition of pulling coping mechanisms” the mortality rate is for the time being lower that that of Somalia and has prevented “the tipping over form an emergency level to a famine level.”
Her visit came just days after an agreement was reached paving the way for a credible political transition and providing a detailed roadmap for change through the broad participation of Yemen’s citizens, who have been engaged in pro-democracy protests since earlier this year. However, despite the signing of the transition agreement, humanitarian needs in Yemen are projected to deteriorate over the next year, according to OCHA.
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