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Yemen, UNHCR review works on
[The Source: www.sabanews.net - 02/01/2010]
Yemen and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reviewed here on Saturday the ongoing works to implement "Mizarq III" camp for the Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Hajjah governorate
Public Health and Population Minister Abdul-Karim Rase'a discussed with the UNHCR representative in Yemen Claire Bourgeois means to speed up the implementation works, asserting the importance of outfitting the camp with the necessary basic services and provide the IDPs in and out the camp with the required foodstuffs.
The comp is being implemented by the UNHCR in collaboration with Islamic Relief organization.
Noteworthy, the "Mizraq II" inaugurated on November 26, 2009 was outfitted under the finance and supervision of the UEA Red Crescent in collaboration with the al-Saleh Foundation for Social Development.The "Mizraq II" established under international standards contains 1000 tents could accommodate 7,000 IDPs. The camp was provided with all basic service, including medical, educational ones and a central kitchen could serve more than 20,000 meals daily.According to the UN mission, there are more than 160,000 IDPs due to the recent confrontations between the army and rebels.The Houthi rebels have been launching sporadic wars against the troops since 2004. Thousands of people, soldiers and insurgents have been killed in Saada province, which located close to border with Saudi Arabia, after the rebel group was founded by rebel leader Hussein al-Houthi.Hussein, the eldest brother of the current group leader Abdul-Malik, was killed by the army in September 2004.The Yemeni government accuses the Houthi group of trying to reinstall the rule of imams, which was toppled by a republican revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.
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