SANAA, YEMEN, 9 November 2009 (IRIN): Nearly 100.000 people displaced over five years of fighting between government troops and Houthi-led Shia rebels have been receiving food aid in the governorates of Saada, Hajja, Amran and Al-Jawf since mid-August, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).

Since the outbreak of renewed clashes on 12 August, WFP and its implementing partners have provided regular food assistance to 53.956 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Saada Governorate, 25.543 in Hajjah, 5.831 in Amran and 3.346 in al-Jawf, according to Maria Santamarina, a WFP reports and advocacy official in Yemen.

The overall figure includes those assisted by a cross-border operation from Saudi Arabia. WFP began a cross-border operation from Sanaa to Saudi Arabia and back down into the Mandaba area near the Saudi border where more than 9.450 IDPs trapped by the conflict have received food assistance since 1 November, Santamarina said.

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