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The Emirates Red Crescent delivered 5,000 baskets of food to displaced people in Yemen’s city of Aden, reported UAE’s Wam news agency
The report said that most people were from the governorates of Taez and Al Hodeidah, which is under the control of the Houthi rebels
Nagwa Fadhle, executive manager of Aden Micro-Finance Foundations, said hundreds of families are benefiting from the continuous food aid
“The ERC has been supporting the poor governorates and liberated governorates since the eruption of the war three years ago,” she said
The latest ERC aid is part of the UAE’s efforts to help ease the suffering of the Yemeni people, said Wam
Meanwhile, according to reports on Tuesday, a military offensive on the port city of Al Hodeidah was imminent
Yemeni officials, who spoke to the Associated Press, said that the UN has pulled its international staff out of Al Hodeidah
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief reporters, said on Tuesday that the UN operations centre was still being manned by local staff
For the past two weeks, Yemen government troops — backed by an Arab coalition — have been closing in on Al Hodeidah, which is being used by the Houthis to smuggle weapons provided by Iran
Al Hodeidah, the country’s second largest port, also provides a lifeline for food, medicine and other vital supplies
The Saudi-led coalition intervened in the Yemen war in 2015 at the request of the internationally-recognised government of Yemeni President Abdrabu Mansur Hadi
More than 22 million people in Yemen are in need of aid — 8.4 million of whom are on the brink of starvation, according to the UN
The conflict has left nearly 10,000 people dead in the country that is already the Arab world’s poorest nation
