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THE Arab League renewed its commitment on Sunday to the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Yemen.
Yemen is facing a devastating humanitarian crisis after a bitter nine years of a US sponsored proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
A source from the league, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the official Egyptian news agency Mena that the organisation’s recent foreign ministers meeting rejected any continued interference in the internal affairs of Yemen and called for a comprehensive and sustainable peace in the war torn nation.
It called on all Arab States and the wider international community to intensify their efforts to tackle the acute shortage of food and medicine in Yemen.
The International Committee of the Red Cross estimates that more than 20 million Yemenis, out of a population of 31m lack of access to basic health care and 16.2m are threatened by lack of food.
The war began in 2014, when Houthi rebels took up arms and occupied large swathes of the country, including its capital, Sana’a.
The following year a US backed Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia.
Prospects for peace in Yemen improved last week after Saudi Arabia and Iran exchanged ambassadors in a move that followed peace talks brokered by the Chinese earlier this year.
