http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Japan, UNHCR distribute garments to IDPs [The Source: SANA'A\Hadhramaut\Saba - Wednesday -23/April/2014] The Japanese Embassy to Yemen and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)on Wednesday distributed more than 200,000 clothes to about 63,000 internally displaced persons in districts of Haja, Amran, Aden and Sana’a governorates. In the distribution ceremony, the Japanese Ambassador to Yemen Katsuyoshi Hayashi said that these garments are a symbol of friendship between the Yemeni and Japanese peoples.

For his part, the UNHCR resident representative Johannes Van Der Klaauw stressed that the support provided by Japan will alleviate suffers of Yemen’s IDPs, pointing out that UNHCR provided assistance to about 200,000 IDPs who have recently come back to their homes in Abyan.

He also said that UNHCR provides aids to more than 240,000 refugees who came from the African Horn, Iraq and Syria to Yemen.