Saudi Arabia pledged an additional USD 30 mn in aid to the Sahel and Lake Chad region, bringing the Kingdom’s total assistance to the region since the start of the year to USD 51 mn, state news agency SPA reported. The funds were pledged via the Kingdom’s humanitarian agency KSRelief, and went towards the USD 1.1 bn raised during a donor conference hosted in Jeddah dedicated to supporting displaced persons and refugees in Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Mali.

Aid will also be dispatched to Yemen: KSRelief also signed a USD 25 mn mutual cooperation agreement with the UN’s World Food Program directed towards providing food assistance to vulnerable families in Yemen, state news agency SPA reported. The agreement will see 13,798 tons of food aid distributed in Yemen, in addition to initiatives to support local food production.

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