Imens stiger bitterheden i den fattige befolkning, som ikke kan brødføde sig selv og ikke få børnene i skole – især i landets sydlige del er det slemt, og folk ligger opgivende i gaderne, ikke fordi de er døde, men fordi de har mistet livslysten.
SANA’A, 10 July 2013 (IRIN): Four months into their six-month mandate, the 565 Yemenis taking part in the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) know they have their work cut out to agree the blueprint for a new Yemen.
While the drawing up of a new constitution ahead of presidential elections scheduled for early next year is the most immediate concern, many Yemenis look to the NDC not just to manage the political transition, but fundamentally to improve their lives in a country with deep humanitarian needs.
Nearly half the population do not have enough food, most (13,1 million) do not have access to safe water and sanitation, and nearly a million children are acutely malnourished (underernærede), according to this year’s Humanitarian Response Plan.
“Our objective was to create a new country,” said NDC member Fuad Al-Hothefy from the Youth Revolution Council who took part in initial Arab-Spring protests against the then president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, in early 2011, adding:
“Before 2011, wherever you meet anyone in the world they mention Yemen with poverty, terrorism, corruption – all bad things.”
He sits on the NDC “development” sub-group, one of nine such sub-committees.
Much of the work takes place in a luxury hotel on the outskirts of the capital Sana’a, but regional meetings to “meet the people” have brought political and community leaders face to face.
“When our people went to Aden [southern city] the population said `Go back, what are you doing here? You do not even care, you do not know what we are going through’,” Nadia al Sakkaf, editor-in-chief of the Yemen Times and a member of the NDC, told IRIN.
“The people from Sana’a admitted it, and they said `Oh my God, we did not know!’ They were really shocked at the miserable conditions in which the people there are living”, noted he, adding:
“They are reporting on it daily saying that people are lying in the streets, almost lifeless, but not because they are dead but because they have no sense of living. And there is a massive resentment (harme /bitterhed) building up.”
In the last few days thousands in the once independent south have again protested in favour of secession (løsrivelse), accusing the government of neglect.
Læs videre på
http://www.irinnews.org/report/98389/exaggerated-hopes-for-yemen-s-national-dialogue-conference
Se om pengemanglen i den humanitære bistand til Yemen på
http://www.irinnews.org/report/98360/funding-shortfalls-hit-yemen-humanitarian-work
Mere om landet Yemen på
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen
