Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani has directed the allocation of $100mn to support food security and help prevent famine in Yemen. The allocation is in support of the efforts of the United Nations World Food Programme in Yemen, and to assist the United Nations' relief and urgent humanitarian programmes to alleviate the exacerbation of the human tragedy in that country.

Yemen has been beset by a devastating war since 2015, which has left millions displaced and created food insecurity in the country.