UN warns that it urgently needs $4.9 million to scale up emergency response to Yemen's extreme weather conditions.
Drone footage shows people walking surrounded by flood waters, in Hodeidah Province, Yemen, August 7, 2024. / Photo: Reuters
Yemen, already grappling with an almost decade-long war, suffers from severe floods on a near-annual basis that are triggered by torrential rainfall, while climate crisis is increasing the frequency and intensity of precipitation. "Public infrastructure, including schools, roads, and health facilities, have been affected. Livelihoods that were already hanging by a thread have been swept away," OCHA said.
It added that a total of 38,285 families — nearly 268,000 people — have been affected, saying that"severe weather is expected to persist into September, with additional alerts for heavy rainfall".In recent years, it has experienced an increase in the frequency and intensity of rainfall due to climate crisis, stimulated by atmospheric circulation in the Indian Ocean, according to a 2023 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Norwegian Red Cross.
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