UN appeal for urgent Yemen aid
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Aid agencies say Yemen is in dire need of assistance as the coronavirus threatens to decimate a healthcare system already ravaged by civil war
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CHANGE IN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE*

Decrease
Low High

Increase 
No change

Sanaa Governorate
Dhamar
Sanaa City
YEMEN

160km  100 miles
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1.7m Ibb Decrease in average number of people receiving assistance each month
*Between fourth quarter of 2019 and first two months of 2020

155
Number of districts reporting decrease in assistance

19m
People in urgent need – UN seeking $2.4 billion to fund aid operations until end of 2020, including $180 million to counter Covid-19

PEOPLE AT RISK 

30.5m
Estimated total population of Yemen

24.3m
People in need of humanitarian aid and protection (about 80 percent of population)

UN warns that millions of lives will be at risk if aid agencies are unable to scale up operations again, and situation will be “catastrophic” for those already facing malnutrition, food insecurity and disease
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Sources: Associated Press, ReliefWeb
Picture: Getty Images
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