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July 17, 2015

Hundreds of Aid Packages for Yemen Instead Rotting in Storage in U.S. 
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A new Government Accountability Office report shows that hundreds of
packages of aid intended for Yemen have not been delivered and have been
sitting in a storage facility in Virginia for years. The packages
include medical supplies and batteries, as well as military equipment.
The revelations come two weeks after the United Nations declared Yemen
faces the highest level humanitarian crisis, on par with South Sudan,
Syria and Iraq. Julien Harneis, the acting U.N. humanitarian coordinator
for Yemen, spoke on the situation.

 

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