Senate needs to back Yemen resolution with food aid

Published on 28 July 2010

The Senate passed a resolution last year calling for support of Yemen, a country afflicted by Al Qaeda, internal conflict, hunger and poverty. (..) The UN World Food Programme (WFP), with a 51 million dollar budget shortfall, is struggling to provide aid to Yemenis displaced by the conflict in the northern part of the country. WFP's Food for Education programs have only had one distribution since June, 2009 because of this low funding.

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