The European Commission has announced that in response to the United Nations' call for funds, the EU pledged, on Monday 2 April, to mobilise €107.5 million in emergency and longer term aid this year for vulnerable people in Yemen. The country has been devastated by three years of war.
This pledge was made at the donors' conference for Yemen that was organised in Geneva by the United Nations. The UN has calculated the cost for financing their emergency programmes at USD$3 billion...