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| Yemen: Saudi Arabia 'should fund all humanitarian aid' |
| 2017-09-05 |
| [Al Jazeera] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... alone should fund all steps to tackle widespread disease and hunger in war-torn Yemen, a top UN official has said. They should give me money, too. Comments by David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), were unusually forthright for such a high-ranking UN official in criticising one party in a conflict. Calling for an end to the coalition's campaign, he accused the Saudi-led coalition of hampering provision of aid. "Saudi Arabia should fund 100 percent [of the needs] of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen," Beasley told Rooters news agency on Monday. "Either stop the war or fund the crisis. Option three is, do both of them." A Saudi-led coalition embarked on a campaign in March 2015 in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... with the aim of dislodging Iran-backed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels who control the capital and much of the north and restoring to power the internationally-recognised government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Since fighting began, more than 10,000 people have been killed, and millions have been driven from their homes. The country is also facing a health crisis, with more than 2,000 people having died from cholera since April, more than half a million people infected, and another 600,000 expected to contract the infection this year. |
| Posted by:Fred |