AlQa'dah 20, 1436, Sep 4, 2015, SPA -- The United Nations Friday released an emergency allocation of $15 million to help alleviate the "almost incomprehensible" scale of human suffering in Yemen where a "shocking" four out of every five Yemenis are lacking in basic items for survival. "The civilian population is bearing the brunt of the conflict: a shocking four out of five Yemenis require humanitarian assistance and nearly 1.5 million people are internally displaced," U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O'Brien said. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that O'Brien released an additional $15 million from the U.N. Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), bringing support for humanitarian operations in Yemen to more than $44 million in 2015. OCHA said that the provision of basic services, including water, sanitation, and healthcare, has been severely disrupted.
