Azerbaijan provides assistance to Yemen

Under the instruction of President Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani government allocated $25,000 to provide humanitarian assistance to Yemen.

The move came in response to the letter addressed by UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock and General Supervisor of King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabiah in connection with the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

The aid will be delivered to the people affected by the humanitarian crisis in Yemen through the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

More than five years of conflict have left Yemenis hanging on by a thread, their economy in tatters, their institutions facing near-collapse.

Four people out of every five, 24 million in all, need life‑saving aid in what remains the world’s most massive humanitarian crisis. The UN warned two million Yemeni children are suffering from acute malnutrition, which could stunt their growth and affect them throughout their lives.

On 10 April, Yemen reported its first case of COVID-19, which poses a terrifying threat to some of the most vulnerable people in the world, weakened by years of conflict, and with a health system that is already on the brink of collapse.

UN agencies and their global partners are seeking $2.41 billion to fight COVID-19 spread in Yemen while supporting millions affected by the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.