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Yemeni men carrying food aid provided by the World Food Program (WFP) to help families affected by the ongoing conflict between loyalist forces and Huthi rebels, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. While grain silos in many Western countries may overflow this winter, tens of millions of people risk going without food as hunger is being used more than ever as a weapon of war. More than 50 million people living in 17 conflict-ridden countries are in "severe food insecurity", two UN agencies warned recently. The protracted conflicts in Yemen and Syria place those two nations at the top of the list established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Image Credit: AFP

Hadramout: The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) helped rennovate and improve a health centre in Hella District in Al Mukalla.

The launch of the improved health centre is part of a series of development projects being implemented by the ERC in the governorate to improve the humanitarian conditions of the people and meet their medical care needs.

The director of the Hella Health Centre, Sulaiman Saeed Bahamran said the centre can accommodate around 600 patients a month and has already begun receiving people.

The ERC provided the centre much of its new medical equipment.

The Yemeni people expressed their appreciate to the ERC and to the UAE in general for their charitable work.

Last week, the ERC also opened a new health centre in the Ghayl Ba Wazir district in Hadramout.

The ERC has opened several new health centres in the country and continues to send critical humanitarian aid to areas affected by the war.

Last week it sent a large convoy of medical supplies as well as dates to a needy village in the Lahej governorate.

Yemenis are suffering from shortages of basic items and say the ERC is one of the only consistent aid organisations helping them.

It has assisted over 200,000 households (approximately 1.5 million people) in the span of a year, a senior official said yesterday.

The UAE was the world’s largest aid donor to Yemen in 2015, providing humanitarian aid worth Dh744 million ($202 million) between April and July — almost half of the aid pledged by other countries

This month, Saudi Arabia said it had submitted humanitarian aid worth more than $500 million, making it the biggest donor of assistance to Yemen.