UN chief: Appeal for Yemen raises ‘disappointing’ $1.7B ...Egypt

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CAIRO (AP) — A United Nations appeal for aid to Yemen to alleviate the world’s worst humanitarian disaster raised some $1.7 billion Monday— a result the UN chief called “disappointing.” At a virtual pledging conference co-hosted by Sweden and Switzerland, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had appealed for $3.85 billion this year to address the impoverished Arab country’s dire needs. The amount raised, however, was less than what the UN received last year, and a billion dollars short of what was pledged in the 2019 conference, he said. Guterres called for countries to “consider again what they can do to help stave off the worst famine the world has seen in decades.” From the outset, it wa

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