A World Food Program on Yemen food security update has said that fuel imports through Hodeidah port that falls under Houthi militia control significantly increased - in the first three months of the announced truce - compared to the previous year.
This came at a time when the Yemeni government announced that the cost of fuel imports has increased to 2 billion dollars in the first half of the year compared with last year’s costs.
The government stressed the importance of doubling food assistance to millions of people in Yemen because of a food shortage caused by the war in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the WFP expects 19 million people, 60 percent of Yemen’s population, to suffer from food insecurity in the second half of 2022.
It is estimated that 161,000 are living in famine-like conditions with the exacerbation of limited access to food.
