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World Food Programme (WFP) has discussed on Tuesday details of the implementation of the WFP coming two-year program aiming to provide food aid to six million Yemenis suffering from food insecurity at the cost of US$ 491 million.
This came in the first session of the WFP Executive Board being held in the Italian capital Rome and with the participation Minister of Planning and International Cooperation.
The WFP will offer the support via increasing food and promote the government's plans to encourage the girls' enrollment in schools.
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation pointed out that the WFP approved program for the coming two years would be in active from the coming July, noting that Yemeni would benefit from the program in many fields, such as; education, health, social affairs and labor, agriculture and beside other fields of development.
The school feeding program aims to support the enrollment of nearly 215,000 girls in basic education. Within the WFP's activities, relief aid for about 600,000 of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees as well would also provide.
The program would also address cases of malnutrition for 300,000 children under the age of five and about 250,000 of pregnant and lactating mothers.
The relief assistance or cash-for-work to rehabilitate the infrastructure of the affected local communities and to promote livelihoods of nearly 2.9 million people in communities suffering from food insecurity would be included in the WFP two-year program.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.
WFP allocates US$ 491 mln for food aid to six million Yemenis
