UN agency seeks to get food aid to Yemenis by July

‘The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) says it is scaling up its operations to provide emergency food aid to 2.5 million Yemenis by July as the war-wracked country is facing with an increasing number of hungry people.

“The conflict has increased the number of hungry people in the country,” WFP spokesperson Elisabeth Byrs told a press briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

She added that WFP will need roughly $43 million every month to distribute full emergency rations to some 2.5 million people in the impoverished state during the next three months.’

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