The United Nations is shrinking its relief assistance in Somalia and Yemen for more than half news

The United Nations has announced that it had to review its relief plans for Somalia and Yemen for more than half in the past two months, due to the global discounts in financing humanitarian operations.

The office of the United Nations spokesman confirmed that the organization conducted a comprehensive review of its humanitarian responses during the past two months in line with the plan of the Undersecretary of the Secretary -General for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher, to reset the humanitarian action.

The organization recorded that the new response plan for Somalia seeks to target 1.3 million people with aid, as the rate of beneficiaries will decrease by more than 70% from the number specified at the beginning of the year, which was 4.6 million people.

The same data stated that this step will lead to a reduction in the specified cost to support humanitarian aid in Somalia from $ 1.4 billion to about 367 million dollars only.

As for the situation in Yemen, the amended United Nations plan for 2025 has allocated $ 1.4 billion to reach 8.8 million people, achieving a decrease from $ 2.4 billion in the original humanitarian response plan.

The office emphasized that the two modified plans for Somalia and Yemen “do not mean a decrease in the total humanitarian needs and requirements, but rather dictated by the tremendous deficiency in global financing.”

The UN office stressed that it seeks to use the resources it receives to ensure the largest amount of life -saving assistance to the most vulnerable people in the world.

He pointed out that all the needs and responses specified in the humanitarian plans for 2025 “are still in effect and urgent”, as the Undersecretary of the Secretary -General for Humanitarian Affairs seeks to expand the scope of responses to cover all targeted persons, as he was originally planned.

The office acknowledged that the “unprecedented” discounts in the funding witnessed in the humanitarian sector compel the organization and its partners to reduce programs that greatly save lives, which puts millions of lives at risk all over the world.

The United Nations warned of the severe consequences if its goals were not achieved, and it suggested that millions of people suffer from severe hunger, clean water lack, education and protection, as I expected that death rates and disease will rise with the closure of health facilities and the increasing prevalence of diseases.