- ARAB NEWS
- 16 Apr 2024
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia pledged $500 million of support to Yemen on Tuesday as the Kingdom hosted a major international donor conference.
The money will go toward the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan 2020 and COVID-19 Response plan, Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, the supervisor general of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), said.
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“We are meeting today amid the conditions the world is facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and all the economic, health and political challenges that it has caused,” Al-Rabeeah told the virtual conference.
He said of the Saudi pledge, some $300 million would go to UN agencies working in Yemen and $200 million would be allocated to KSrelief.
