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Angelina Jolie on Sunday visited war-wrecked Yemen to show solidarity with displaced families in hopes of mobilizing support for an incoming fundraising conference, the United Nations said.Jolie, who is special envoy for the U.N. on refugee issues, landed in the southern coastal city of Aden to meet with families and refugees there.
Aden is the seat of the internationally recognized government.The U.N. refugee agency said it hopes that Jolie’s visit would draw attention to growing humanitarian needs in Yemen, the Arab World's poorest country, ahead of the annual High Level Pledging Conference for Yemen on March 16.“As we continue to watch the horrors unfolding in Ukraine and call for an immediate end to the conflict and humanitarian access, I am here in Yemen to support people who also desperately need peace.
The situation here is one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world,” Jolie said in a post on her Instagram account.Yemen has been convulsed by civil war since 2014, when the Iran-backed Houthi rebels took control of the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country’s north, forcing the government to flee to the south, then to Saudi Arabia. A Saudi-led coalition, backed at the time by the United States, entered the war in 2015 to try to restore Yemen’s government to power.The conflict has since become a regional proxy war that has killed more than 150,000 people, including over 14.500 civilians, according to 2022 data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Project.
It also created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.According to the U.N. refugee agency, about 66% of Yemen’s 30 million people rely on humanitarian assistance for their daily survival, including over 4.2 million displaced people and 102,000 refugees
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(CNN)Angelina Jolie drew parallels between refugees in Yemen and those suffering because of the war in Ukraine.The star, who has for years worked closely with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), shared that she had traveled to Yemen in a video on her verified Instagram account over the weekend."I've landed in Aden, to meet displaced families and refugees for UNHCR @refugees and show my support for the people of Yemen," the caption read. "I will do my best to communicate from the ground as the days unfold.""As we continue to watch the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, and call for an immediate end to the conflict and humanitarian access, I'm here in Yemen to support people who also desperately need peace," she continued."The situation here is one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with one civilian killed or injured every hour in 2022," wrote Jolie who has served as a special envoy for UNHCR.
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie arrived on Sunday to war-wrecked Yemen to show solidarity with displaced families in hopes of mobilizing support for an incoming fundraising conference, the United Nations said.
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Angelina Jolie has touched down in Yemen. The Oscar winner, who has been a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 2012, shared in an Instagram post Sunday that she traveled to the city of Aden amid what she called «one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.»«I’ve landed in Aden, to meet displaced families and refugees for UNHCR @refugees and show my support for the people of Yemen,» the mother of six captioned her post. «I will do my best to communicate from the ground as the days unfold.»While referencing the attack Ukraine is currently facing from Russia, Jolie shone a light on the ongoing plight of the Yemeni people. «As we continue to watch the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, and call for an immediate end to the conflict and humanitarian access, I’m here in Yemen to support people who also desperately need peace,» she wrote.
Angelina Jolie, 46, told fans that she’d arrived in Yemen’s city Aden to help offer support for people, who, like Ukrainians, are in dire need of peace in an Instagram post on Sunday March 6. The actress shared a few statistics about the struggles that people from Yemen face, and called for further support for them, as she likened the situation to that in Ukraine. “This week a million people were forced to flee the horrific war in Ukraine. If we learn anything from this shocking situation, it is that we cannot be selective about who deserves support and whose rights we defend,” she wrote in one slide.
Angelina Jolie is on the ground in Yemen to aid refugees. Jolie, 46, emphasized the need to support all displaced families and refugees as she arrived in the capital city of Yemen on Sunday amid the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The U.N.
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