Oxfam Yemen Humanitarian Response | Monthly Situation Report NO. 52 as of 28 February 2018
SitRep author: Saif Alhaddi
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Oxfam Yemen Humanitarian Response Monthly Situation Report NO. 52 as of 28 February 2018 ➢ Contacts and links: Program Lead SitRep Author
Mr. Shane Stevenson Mr. Saif Alhaddi
[email protected] [email protected] ➢ Crisis Figures: Population of Yemen*: 29.3 million People in need of humanitarian aid*: 22.2 million
People in need of WASH assistance*: 16 million People in acute need*: 11.3 million
Oxfam funding aim**: £28 million Secured funding**: £27.668 million * Source: YHRP 2018. ** Oxfam’s figures as of Apr 2017
People in need of food assistance*: 17.8 million People in need of protection*: 12.9 million
People in need of IDPs & health care*: returnees*: 16.37 million 2.9 million Women in need of protection*: 6.31 million
Targeted Single Count beneficiaries from 1 beneficiaries 2017/8: April 2017 until 28 February 2018: 1.2 million 1,718,688
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Yemenia Airways resumed their flights on 1st Feb from Aden airport after it was closed on 28 Jan due to the clashes between loyalists of the Southern Transitional Council and loyalists of the internationally recognized government.1 The internationally recognized government’s Minister of Transportation, Saleh Aljaboani, stated on 7 February that the International Maritime Organization has declared Aden and Mukalla ports as safe port which means more companies will restart their operation to these ports.2 The internationally recognized government’s Minister of Local Administration, Abdulraqeep Fateh, stated on 9 February that the Yemeni army has found large quantities of looted aid in the houses of Houthi leaders in Hays district in Hudaydah after the army took control of the city. He is calling on the UN to conduct an immediate and comprehensive investigation on why and when these goods could end up with Houthi leaders.3 The biggest public hospital in Dhamar governorate, Dhamar General Hospital Authority, launched a distress call on 10 February to support the dialysis center with the requirements of dialysis
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https://www.facebook.com/YemenAirways/photos/a.1014232491977031.1073741844.501927169874235/1583223 721744569/?type=3&theater 2 http://sabanew.net/viewstory.php?id=28699 3 http://sabanew.net/viewstory.php?id=28810
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sessions, medicines and solutions that enable it to continue to provide humanitarian services and save the lives of more than 200 renal failure patients as the center is about to stop all operations due to the lack of supplies.4 This comes only two days after MSF announced that since the conflicted escalated in March 2015, four of the 32 dialysis treatment centers have been forced to close5, and two days after ICRC announced that 25 percent of dialysis patients in Yemen have died every year since conflict began in 2015. More dialysis supplies, functioning dialysis machines, and funding for staff salaries are urgently needed to ensure the mortality rate does not rise further for Yemen's 4,400 renal failure patients.6 IOM stated on 9 February that 22 Ethiopian migrants are missing after being into the sea off Yemen’s coast when they were on one of four boats that brought 602 Ethiopian men and women to the coast of Yemen's Shabwah governorate in the past 24 hours.7 UN Secretary-General spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, stated on 5 February, that the recent escalating conflict in Taiz and Hudaydah has displaced nearly 47,000 people to Ad
