Saudi Arabia and the UAE paid $5 billion to spare Yemen from starvation
English - Sunday 06 February 2022 الساعة 04:13 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
The funding of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations-led response operation in Yemen during the past six years amounted to more than 5 billion and 133 million dollars, in addition to other funds through its own channels.
According to the data of the Financial Tracking Services website for humanitarian plans in Yemen during the period 2016-2021, Saudi Arabia’s funding provided to the United Nations to support its humanitarian plans in Yemen amounted to 3 billion and 468 million dollars.
While the funds provided by the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations to finance its humanitarian plans in Yemen during the same period amounted to one billion and 665 million dollars.
While the total funding for the humanitarian response plans for Yemen adopted by the United Nations, from 2015 to the end of December 2021, from all donors, amounted to more than 14 billion dollars, according to OCHA data.
The two Gulf states provided 38 percent of the funding for the UN-led response to Yemen from 2016 to 2021, according to UN data.
In addition to the funds provided by Saudi Arabia and the UAE for United Nations activities in Yemen, the Emirates Red Crescent, the King Salman Relief Center and the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program have implemented projects in the humanitarian and development sectors in Yemen.
According to the data of the SDRPY, from 2018 to July last year, the program implemented 198 development projects and initiatives to support the Yemeni people in seven different sectors: education, health, water, transportation, agriculture, and fisheries, in addition to strengthening government institutions.
Over the past five years, the King Salman Relief Center has implemented 383 projects in different sectors outside the response plans led by the United Nations in Yemen, at a total cost of $2.9 billion, covering all regions of the Republic of Yemen, according to the center's statistics.
The UAE began early to implement humanitarian projects in various regions of Yemen affected by the war and economic conditions. The Emirates Red Crescent implemented projects in other vital areas affected by the war, especially the education, health, water, nutrition, shelter and protection sectors.
The Emirates Red Crescent's activity also included cooperation with international organizations by signing bilateral agreements to implement humanitarian projects in Yemen.
