UN raises $1.2bn from donors towards Yemen aid plan

Number falls short of $4.3bn target to respond to one of world’s biggest humanitarian disasters

The United Nations has raised around $1.2bn (£996m) from crisis-strained donors towards its $4.3bn aid plan for Yemen, one of the world’s biggest humanitarian disasters despite a no-war, no-peace stalemate that has largely stopped fighting.

Underfunding has seen agencies scale back Yemen aid projects, including food rations, in the past couple of years. Last year donors gave $2.2bn of the $4.27bn sought, UN data shows.