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Yemen’s Minister of Information, Muammar Al-Iryani, has commended the World Food Programme (WFP)’s reaction to Houthi militia’s manipulation of food aid.
In statement to the Yemeni News Agency, Al-Iryani said, “The WFP’s account indicates that Houthi militia is deliberately exacerbating humanitarian crisis, causing people in its controlled regions to suffer starvation in order to capitalise on their torment to gain politically and militarily.”
The Yemeni minister added, “Houthi militia has intentionally aimed to deprive millions of Yemenis their salaries, livelihood income sources and humanitarian aid to further increase their suffering so that they have no other choice but to go fighting alongside the coup militia.”
Al-Iranyni said that the coup militia has created pro-Houthi local organisations, some of which are sectarian-oriented, to receive humanitarian aid, re-direct and distribute them to the coup militia’s and their supporters. As a result, he explained, large quantities of humanitarian aid was used to promote Houthi sectarian agenda, hence prolonging the conflict instead of alleviating the humanitarian crisis.