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STORY: YEMEN / HUMANITARIAN SITUATION
TRT: 02:06
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 03 DECEMBER 2015, SANAA, YEMEN / 30 NOVEMBER 2015 AND 01 DECEMBER 2015, ADEN, YEMEN / 23 NOVEMBER 2015, KHANFAR, YEMEN
30 NOVEMBER 2015, ADEN, YEMEN
1. Various shots, streets scenes of destruction in Aden, destroyed buildings, debris, burnt tank
03 DECEMBER 2015, SANAA, YEMEN
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, World Food Programme Regional Director:
“Clearly Yemen is one of the hardest place in the world today to work, massive security concerns, escalation in the fighting and the violence across the country. We are doing well, we are improving our reach in getting to more people every month, but clearly with half of the country now just one step away from famine, we need the international community to really come behind us, and support us, particularly over the next few months.”
01 DECEMBER 2015, ALBURAIQA DISTRICT, ADEN, YEMEN
3. Med shot, children displaced by conflict standing in courtyards
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Ahmed Hassan, displaced Yemeni:
“I appeal to all people of good will. Look at these displaced people; they are your brothers from Yemen. You must look at them and consider them. Help them with anything, food, clothes, and mattresses. People here have nothing. They don’t even have anything to sleep on. They sleep on the ground.”
5. Med shot, children entering makeshift shelter
6. Med shot, man peeling potatoes in barren room
23 NOVEMBER 2015, KHANFAR, ABYAN PROTECTORATE, YEMEN
7. Various shots, World Food Programme distribution centre where people receive a one-month ration of wheat flour, pulses and vegetable oil
8. Med shot, child walking in alley
9. Med shot, displaced children and man in makeshift shelter
01 DECEMBER 2015, ALBURAIQA DISTRICT, ADEN, YEMEN
10. Med shot, displaced children
11. Med shot, displaced girls
WFP warned half of Yemen was “just one step away from famine” and urged the international community to provide more support to address the humanitarian catastrophe.
Speaking from the capital Sanaa, World Food Programme Regional Director Matthew Hollingworth, said that while significant security concerns continued to hamper humanitarian operations on the ground, the UN food agency had been able to improve their "reach in getting to more people every month."
WFP says it has reached 1 million people on average every month since the conflict started until October, when the agency's operations were scaled up, and they were able to assist more than 2.8 million people.
However, Hollingworth said that half of the population remained “just one step away from famine” and called for the international community “to really come behind us, and support us, particularly over the next few months.”
Ten out of Yemen’s 22 governorates are classified as facing food insecurity at “Emergency” level, WFP says. Availability of essential food commodities and fuel is continuing to deteriorate particularly in areas worst hit by the conflict, such as Taiz, Sa'ada, Marib, Al Bayda and Al Jawf as well as cyclone-affected governorates.
Mohammed Ahmed Hassan, a displaced Yemeni who had to leave the Alwaz’eeah district due to fighting, said “I appeal to all people of good will. Look at these displaced people; they are your brothers from Yemen. You must look at them and consider them. Help them with anything, food, clothes, and mattresses. People here have nothing. They don’t even have anything to sleep on. They sleep on the ground.”
According to the 2016 Humanitarian Needs Overview, more than 2.3 million people have fled their homes and are displaced; almost half of them in Aden, Taizz, Hajjah and Al Dhale’e governorates – and an additional 121,000 have fled the country.
Most internally displaced persons live with relatives or friends, an additional burden on impoverished families. The most vulnerable live in public buildings, makeshift shelters or in the open.
