- The United Nations asserts that Yemen is experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis, announcing in its conferences that Yemen is on the brink of famine. It has confirmed that:
- 5 million Yemenis are one step away from famine.
- The funded humanitarian relief program is not sufficient to enable Yemenis to have the right to a decent life.
- The closure of Sana’a International Airport has prevented citizens from traveling, especially the sick and those who urgently need to travel for life-saving treatment.
- Arbitrary restrictions on Hodeidah port have impeded the entry of ships carrying essential items for the lives of millions of Yemenis, which has led to a humanitarian disaster and famine that affected millions of Yemenis.
- The transfer of CBY administration to the governorate of Aden has obstructed the payment of civil servants’ salaries, which led to the deterioration of development in Yemen and affected decent livelihoods.
- Despite the UN testimonials in its international forums that Yemen is going through the worst humanitarian crisis, this international organization actually diagnoses the humanitarian situation in Yemen only and does not talk about the appropriate remedies to stop the deterioration of the humanitarian and other conditions in Yemen.
- It became quite clear that the UN and its humanitarian organizations operating in our country are only exploiting the suffering of Yemenis by diagnosing the humanitarian situation in Yemen and keeping on financing its fictitious humanitarian projects by countries participating in the war on Yemen, such as the US, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. This was confirmed by the press investigative reporter Asher Orkaby on the website (www.merip.org, Middle East Research and Information Project) under the titles “Benefiting from the Misery of Others: Humanitarian Aid in Yemen,” “The World’s Worst Man-Made Humanitarian Disaster” and “Yemen on the Brink: Conflict is Pushing Millions towards Famine.” In response, a growing number of international non-governmental organizations and United Nations-administered aid programs seek to specifically address war-related malnutrition and the spread of disease. However, scant tangible results and an escalating crisis have led many analysts to critique the model used to provide humanitarian assistance to Yemen. In fact, the organizations waste the funds they collect from donors on their operating expenses, as follows:
- The Office of the Special Envoy (OSE) for Yemen has particularly needed additional self-promotion and public justification as its annual core operational budget for 2020 increased to $18.4 million, surpassing the Syrian OSE budget of $16.2 million.
- The air travel costs for the Envoy’s Office (OSE) in Yemen amounted to $1.3 million, with an additional amount of $3.8 million spent on hotel accommodation in Hodeidah for the 2019 UN Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA).
- The press investigation indicated that organizations were not satisfied with wasting aid on operating expenses, but the matter reached the point of carrying out financial and administrative corruption, especially with regard to in-kind, food and pharmaceutical materials. In this regard, there are some examples as follows:
- Introducing some very poor-quality food and medicine aid that have already expired, on the verge of expiration, or of unknown origin. Moreover, much aid is damaged in the stores of the organizations.
- Providing assistance that is disproportionate to the humanitarian situation in Yemen and focusing on providing secondary assistance that is not a priority, such as birth control medicines. Moreover, the organizations choose the areas of aid distribution without taking into account the areas most in need.
- Targeting the agricultural sector and contributing to farmers’ dependence on what the organizations provide, by replacing local food sources with imported alternatives.
- The National Salvation Government in Sana’a announced the seizure of 6 containers of mosquito nets in the port of Hodeidah after the World Health Organization (WHO) brought them in from Salman Center. The shipment was rejected for violating the required permits. The government condemned the “misleading” actions taken by the World Health Organization to bring in a shipment of mosquito nets to people who are being killed by Saudi missiles, warplanes and battleships, forgetting that those who kill children and women in Yemen and deny them food and medicine can never provide any life-saving assistance. Therefore, the UN organization was called upon to quickly return the shipment, unless necessary measures would be taken to destroy it.
- FSO SAFER: An Environmental Disaster that must be avoided:
- The Supreme Political Council and the National Salvation Government are still calling and warning the UN and the War Coalition countries of the necessity of urgent action and rapid seriousness to maintain FSO Safer in order to avoid a potential disaster, as time no longer allows for postponement and procrastination.
- The Supreme Political Council also warns against the UN deliberate procrastination and indifference towards the issue of FSO Safar, which turns out to be intended for exploiting and putting more pressures on the government (NSG) to succumb to the UN and the War Coalition counties dictates. In fact, they are not looking for a solution to prevent an economic and environmental disaster caused by the War Coalition since 2015, as they keep on preventing maintenance teams from accessing the tanker to carry out the necessary actions.
- As part of Saudi arbitrary measures against Yemeni expatriates, the Saudi universities in Najran, Jizan, Asir and Al-Baha informed Yemeni academics working for them of the termination of their employment contracts; and such arbitrary measures have been extended to include most regions of the Kingdom. They actually carried out arbitrary mass forced returns of Yemeni expatriates in a procedure involving university professors, doctors, engineers and workers. In August 2021, the number of deportees from different segments has exceeded forty thousand deportees, who returned to Yemen through Al-Wadia land port.
- Human Rights Watch confirmed that the Saudi authorities since Jul-2021 began to terminate or not renew contracts for Yemeni professionals, which could force them to return to the humanitarian crisis under war in Yemen. It stressed that “Saudi authorities should suspend this decision and allow Yemenis to remain in Saudi Arabia with the ability to work there.”
