UNICEF's Yemen envoy calls for children in al-Mokha to be spared from conflict

Record ID: 401391

  • Title: UNICEF's Yemen envoy calls for children in al-Mokha to be spared from conflict
  • Date: 8th March 2017
  • Summary: AL-MOKHA, YEMEN (MARCH 8, 2017) (REUTERS) (PART MUTE) MOTORCYCLES DRIVING THROUGH STREET IN AL-MOKHA VARIOUS OF TENTS OF DISPLACED YEMENIS IN AL-MOKHA VARIOUS OF YEMENIS STANDING IN FRONT OF THEIR TENTS WOMEN AND CHILDREN SITTING OUTSIDE THEIR TENT (MUTE) UNHCR LOGO ON TENTS OF DISPLACED YEMENIS VARIOUS OF FAMILY EATING OUTSIDE THEIR MAKESHIFT TENT VARIOUS OF WOMAN AND HER
  • Embargoed: 22nd March 2017 14:46
  • Keywords: al-Mokha Sanaa Yemen UNICEF Meritxell Relano resident representative
  • Location: AL-MOKHA AND SANAA, YEMEN
  • City: AL-MOKHA AND SANAA, YEMEN
  • Country: Yemen
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA001673NVWN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: UNICEF's resident representative in Yemen on Wednesday (March 8) called for children to be spared from conflict in the contested Red Sea coastal city of al-Mokha.
    Yemeni army forces backed by Gulf Arabs fought their way into al-Mokha in January, pushing out Iran-allied Houthi militia.
    The UNICEF resident representative, Meritxell Relano, said she hoped that people living in surrounding areas would not be dragged into the ongoing conflict.
    "Our concern is that the conflict spreads to other districts and therefore the number of displaced people and especially children increases," Relano said. "We would like to ask the parties to the conflict that the people that is trapped inside (al-) Mokha, many of them children, are spared from the conflict."
    Relano said about 18 million people in Yemen needed some form of humanitarian help, among them 2.2 million malnourished children.
    "It's not easy to access many areas in the country as you know," Relano added. "Where there is active fighting it is more complicated for the humanitarian staff to reach and to distribute the supplies and the humanitarian assistance, but we are trying."
    Yemen's continuing conflict has seen the Arab Peninsula's poorest country come to the brink of starvation, prompting the United Nations to warn that Yemen could be losing a decade of gains in public health as a result.
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