UN launches new aid appeal as Yemen faces 'looming humanitarian catastrophe'

Jun 20, 2015, at 09:04 pm

New York, June 20 (IBNS) The United Nations relief arm has called for over one billion dollars in funding in order to lift Yemen from a devastating crisis that has plunged the country into severe food insecurity and left it on the brink of an all-out humanitarian disaster, the Organization on Friday confirmed, as national stakeholders from the Gulf state wrapped up UN-backed political consultations in Geneva, Switzerland.