News Center- The Executive Unit for IDP Camps Management in Yemen’s Marib city announced on Wednesday that 6,495 displaced families were affected by the heavy rain on March 8.

6,495 displaced families affected

“6,495 families in 204 IDP camps have been affected by the heavy rain,” said the report released by the Executive Unit For IDP Camps Management. 253 displaced families have lost their homes, food and personal supplies while 6,200 families have been partially affected by the heavy rain, according to the report.

Call for urgent humanitarian aid

In the report, the management called on all organizations to provide urgent humanitarian aid such as food, shelter and clothes, to the affected families, stressing the importance of a strategy to protect camps and displaced people from disasters and emergencies.

The humanitarian crisis is deepening

Marib currently shelters more than 2 million displaced people out of 4.5 million displaced people in Yemen. The war in Yemen has killed an estimated 377,000 people since 2014. The humanitarian crisis caused by the civil war in Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world, is deepening. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Yemeni civil war has displaced more than 4,5 million people and about 23.4 million Yemenis (73% of the population) have become dependent on humanitarian aid.