{"id":33316,"date":"2019-02-26T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33316"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:29:04","slug":"un-regains-access-to-red-sea-mills-grains-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33316","title":{"rendered":"UN regains access to Red Sea mills grains in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nGENEVA:\u00a0The UN said Tuesday it had reached food aid warehouses on the frontlines in Yemen, holding enough supplies to feed millions of people, for the first time since September.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI have just received a piece of good news. Finally, it was possible for us to reach the Red Sea Mills,\u201d UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a pledging conference for Yemen in Geneva.<\/p>\n

\nA spokesman for the UN\u2019s World Food Programme said that it was an evaluation mission that had reached the warehouse near the western port city of Hodeida.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cToday, for the first time since September, a World Food Programme team was able to reach the site of the Red Sea Mills, which holds 51,000 metric tons of grain, which is enough to feed more than 3.7 million people for a month,\u201d Herve Verhoosel said.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe do not yet have the technical results from today\u2019s evaluation, but we hope to be able to begin using this site again as soon as possible,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\nThe mission follows an agreement struck in Sweden on February 17, in which the sides in Yemen\u2019s conflicts agreed to redeploy their fighters outside the ports and away from areas that are key to the humanitarian relief effort in the country.<\/p>\n

\nThe ports are in the Houthi-held west of the country, and the agreement especially set out free access to the grain warehouses at Red Sea Mills, under control of the Saudi-backed government forces.<\/p>\n

\nThe conflict has killed around 10,000 people \u2014 most of them civilians \u2014 and has left more than 60,000 wounded, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n

\nThe conflict has also created what the UN describes as the world\u2019s worse humanitarian crisis, with some 10 million people are on the verge of famine.<\/p>\n

\nGuterres was Tuesday leading a pledging conference in Geneva aimed at raising $4.2 billion to help more than 21 million people in dire need of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n

\nIn total, the UN estimates that more than 24 million people, or 80 percent of the population, needs assistance, including two million people who are affected by the humanitarian crisis in the past year alone.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cTwo million girls, boys, women and men in need of lifesaving aid would be a significant emergency on its own,\u201d Guterres said, adding though that \u201cIn Yemen, it is a small fraction of an overwhelming humanitarian calamity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAccording to the UN appeal published Tuesday, 14.3 million of Yemen\u2019s inhabitants are in acute need of assistance, and Guterres stressed the particularly heavy burden on children.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cChildren did not start the war in Yemen, but they are paying the highest price,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\nAround 360,000 children in the country are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, and Guterres pointed to a \u201ccredible\u201d report issued by Save the Children last November, indicating that more than 80,000 infants under the age of five may have died of starvation since 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GENEVA:\u00a0The UN said Tuesday it had reached food aid warehouses on the frontlines in Yemen, holding enough supplies to feed millions of people, for the first time since September. \u201cI have just received a piece of good news. Finally, it was possible for us to reach the Red Sea Mills,\u201d UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}