Trump, About to Visit Saudi Arabia, Is Urged to Help Yemen
By NICK CUMMING-BRUCEMAY 15, 2017
GENEVA — As President Trump prepares for his first overseas trip this week, his decision to make Saudi Arabia his first stop is prompting
urgent appeals from humanitarian agencies to assist in the crisis in neighboring Yemen, which is careening toward a catastrophe.
"It’s very, very timely that the United States apply all the pressure it can with regard to all parties involved, including Saudi
Arabia," David Beasley, the newly installed head of the United Nations food relief agency, told reporters in Geneva on Monday.
After 40 years dealing with international aid and humanitarian relief operations, Mr. Egeland said, "I’m more worried for Yemen now than for any other place on the planet." Get politics
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Seven million people in Yemen are facing starvation
and 17 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian relief after two years of fighting between a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels.
Visiting two of Sana’s main hospitals on Sunday, Dominik Stillhart, the committee’s director of operations in Yemen, saw beds crammed with up to four patients,
and others hooked up to intravenous drips in cars parked outside because of the lack of space.
Norwegian visited that This is a colossal failure of international diplomacy
and a colossal failure to get out the message of a crisis that is now of biblical proportions,