IBB, Jan.25 (Saba) - The ongoing US-back Saudi-led aggression coalition against Yemen for five years has forced more than 3.8 (Three million and 800 thousand citizens) to flee their homes and turned the country into home for the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations.
These displaced persons, who have been divided into 15 provinces, live precarious lives at risk due to the lack of basic needs for shelter, food, medicine, drinking water and sanitation, and the displacement affects host communities, with increasing pressure on their meagre resources.
Ibb province, one of Yemen's provinces that have received 32,462 displaced families, has 227,234 people, according to reports of the Supreme Council for the Administration and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and International Cooperation.
"The displaced and families affected by the aggression are in dire need of support to alleviate their suffering and difficult living conditions," said Ibb Governor Abdul Wahid Salah, noting that the numbers of displaced people exceeded the local authority's capacity to provide shelter, food and health services, but provided them with shelter, food and health services. The camps provided services and assistance to those families according to the availability.
"The local authority has set up seven shelters for displaced people in the provincial center and a number of districts and provided them with some necessary needs according to the available resources," he said.
He stressed that the priority of the local authority in the province during the current conditions to provide the needs of the affected and communicate them to them with ease.
The Governor of Ibb renewed calls on international organizations and charities to respond urgently to the humanitarian needs have displaced people in and outside the camps.
Dr. Faisal Al-Kholani, director of the Branch of the Supreme Council for The Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and International Cooperation in the Province, explained that some organizations have responded over the past year to the needs of displaced persons and provided shelters and non-food items to some displaced people, in addition to providing a small share of food. .
"We are seeking to direct humanitarian organizations to an integrated and correct response to the displaced, as in previous years the response has been weak, amounting to only about 20 percent, which we will not accept, because humanitarian organizations have come to alleviate the suffering of the displaced," he said.
The organizations had demonstrated their failure to respond humanely and must be redirected to the right track for the benefit of the affected citizen.
Kamal al-Harthi, director of the planning office in the province, confirmed that Ibb province is suffering mainly from high population density, with a population of five million people in addition to the influx of displaced people, although most of them did not register at the community center for displaced persons and live with relatives of the community. Host, which exacerbated the humanitarian crisis and created a significant burden and a decline in the level of basic services in the province.
"We have coordinated with international and local organizations to prepare a humanitarian response plan this year, which includes interventions in all areas, the most important of which are shelter, food, health, water, environment and education in accordance with the needs provided by the stakeholders," he said.
Al-Harthi called on all organizations working in the province to provide humanitarian needs to the population of the province in accordance with the actual needs, and to implement projects that benefit the displaced as part of the economic empowerment program that will enable them to find a source of income to improve their standard of living.
The displaced face extreme conditions, reflecting one of the most prominent aspects of the humanitarian disaster created by the aggression, which forced them to seek safety in remote areas that lack basic services and most of them live in small tents that do not provide any protection from the sun, rain or frost during cold winter nights, This requires strengthening efforts to support them and meet their basic needs.
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