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Yemen: Ship Loaded With Food Aid Reaches Aden Yemen: Ship Loaded With Food Aid Reaches Aden
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A ship full of aid chartered by the World Food Program, the United Nations’ anti-hunger agency, berthed Tuesday in Yemen’s southern port of Aden, the agency reported. It was the first vessel chartered by the agency to reach Aden since the Yemen conflict escalated nearly four months ago, when a Saudi Arabia-led bombing campaign began against Yemen’s Houthi rebels. In a statement, the World Food Program said the vessel, the MV Han Zhi, was loaded with 3,000 metric tons of food, enough to feed 180,000 people for one month. Muhannad Hadi, the agency’s regional director, called the ship’s safe arrival “a major breakthrough for our humanitarian response in Yemen,” which has been frustrated by extremely limited access to the country, the poorest in the Arab world. The World Food Program has made repeated attempts to send ships to Aden but until Tuesday all had been blocked because of fighting. More than half of Yemen’s population of 24 million is thought to urgently need food assistance. A ship full of aid chartered by the World Food Program, the United Nations’ antihunger agency, berthed Tuesday in Yemen’s southern port of Aden, the agency reported. It was the first vessel chartered by the agency to reach Aden since the Yemen conflict escalated nearly four months ago, when a Saudi Arabia-led bombing campaign began against Yemen’s Houthi rebels. In a statement, the World Food Program said the vessel, the MV Han Zhi, was loaded with 3,000 metric tons of food, enough to feed 180,000 people for one month. Muhannad Hadi, the agency’s regional director, called the ship’s safe arrival “a major breakthrough for our humanitarian response in Yemen,” which has been frustrated by extremely limited access to the country, the poorest in the Arab world. The World Food Program has made repeated attempts to send ships to Aden but until Tuesday all had been blocked because of fighting. More than half of Yemen’s population of 24 million is thought to urgently need food assistance.