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United Nations asked for $274 million for Yemen emergency help, Salman doubled his pledge to $540
King Salman doubled Saudi Arabia's aid commitment to Yemen to $540 million on Wednesday.
"We announce that we are setting aside one billion riyals ($266 million) for aid and humanitarian operations... in addition to more than one billion riyals ($274 million) we had already pledged," the official Saudi Press Agency quoted the king as saying.
On April 18, the kingdom pledged the entire $274 million sought by the United Nations in an appeal for emergency assistance to help victims of the war in Yemen.
The U.N. said that that money would "meet the life-saving and protection needs of 7.5 million people affected" by a deepening humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/05/13/
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