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Azerbaijan provides humanitarian aid to Yemen
Foreign policy
- 08 May, 2019
- 04:49
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Azerbaijan has provided humanitarian aid to Yemen at the instruction of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev following UN Secretary General António Guterres's appeal to the UN member-states over humanitarian crisis in this country, Report informs citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Assistance is to be provided to those in need in Yemen through the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
By the UN estimates, 24 million people (80 percent of the population) in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 250,000 people suffer from acute malnutrition. There are 3.3 million internally displaced persons in the country; various types of dangerous diseases have spread among the population.
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