A United Nations conference in Geneva is hoping to raise four point two billion dollars, equivalent of three point-two billion pounds to fund humanitarian operations in Yemen, where a civil war has left the country on the brink of famine.
It is the largest single country appeal ever made by the UN, which plans to help nineteen million people.
An estimated two hundred and forty thousand people are facing catastrophic levels of hunger.
According to the UN at least seven thousand civilians have been killed and eleven thousand, one hundred injured in the fighting while thousands more have died from preventable causes, including
malnutrition and diseases.
Meanwhile, the UN’s Yemen envoy said aid workers could soon access a key granary near the port city of Hudaydah.
Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council that government forces and Houthi rebels could start to withdraw from around the city as part of a deal reached in December which has yet to be implemented.
Yemen, gripped by the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, has been devastated by a conflict that escalated in early 2015, when the Houthis forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad.
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