http://www.english.hadhramaut.info US props up UNHCR programs in Yemen with $ 4.9 mln [The Source: sana'a/ hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 17/04/2010] The US has allocated $ 4.9 million for propping up the humanitarian programs of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Yemen. The US embassy announced, in a press release issued on Saturday, that the sum comes in continuation of the US urgent assistance to the UNHCR programs for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of the rebellion in Saada province and Harf Sufyan of Amran province, which are over 250,000 IDPs.The sum is to be used for providing the IDPs with relief and sheltering stuffs in the IDPs camps in each of Saada, Amran and Hajjah provinces, in addition to support the efforts of refugees registration, according to the press release.The embassy said that the US has presented more than $ 24.5 million as assistance for humanitarian activities in Yemen since 2008 for Saada IDPs and affected people of the rainstorm disaster hit provinces of Hadramout and Mahrah.