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Saudi Arabia Delivers New Batch of Oil Supplies to Yemen’s Al Mahra

Al Mahra Governor and SDRPY Director for Al Mahra Governorate receiving the Saudi oil grant (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Al Mahra Governor and SDRPY Director for Al Mahra Governorate receiving the Saudi oil grant (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Saudi Arabia Delivers New Batch of Oil Supplies to Yemen’s Al Mahra

Al Mahra Governor and SDRPY Director for Al Mahra Governorate receiving the Saudi oil grant (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Al Mahra Governor and SDRPY Director for Al Mahra Governorate receiving the Saudi oil grant (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Yemen’s Al Mahra governorate has received a new batch of Saudi oil derivatives, delivered as part of a grant initiative by the neighboring Kingdom. This time, the fuel delivery amounted to 5,500 metric tons of diesel that are meant to feed power plants across Al Mahra.

Made through the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY), the transfer involved transporting 4,000 metric tons by the sea and 1,500 tons by land.

The shipment will help reduce budget burdens suffered by the Yemeni government, limit the Yemen Central Bank’s spending of hard currency on fuel supplies from global markets, and stabilize the Yemeni rial’s exchange rate.

Moreover, the donation will aid in soothing soaring oil rates, creating jobs, and raising local productivity. Vital sectors will also benefit from the shipment as well as overall living conditions in Al Mahra.

The donation was received by Al Mahra Governor Muhammad Ali Yasser and SDRPY Director of Operations in Al Mahra Eng. Abdullah Basliman.

Representatives from the Yemeni Oil Company and the Electricity and Energy Company in Yemen were also present.

The shipment will reduce daily blackouts, help the government save funds for development projects, and meet the monthly fuel needs of Al Mahra.

Both the SDRPY and the Yemeni government have worked together to develop integrated governance mechanisms for oil derivatives.

The Yemeni government has formed a supervision, oversight, and follow-up committee from all relevant Yemeni ministries and authorities and linked it to an executive program and a control mechanism that ensures that grants reach beneficiary stations with high reliability to ensure actual access to beneficiaries and to ensure the use of oil derivatives for what they are allotted.

The joint committee has scheduled the Saudi oil derivatives grant shipments in a way that contributes to helping the Yemeni government redirect expenses. It will be able to use the money previously allocated for the purchase of oil derivatives to support paying the salaries of civil servants.

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Saudi Arabia’s Contribution to Humanitarian Relief Reaches $130 Billion

Saudi Arabia is among the top three leading global donors of development and humanitarian aid. (SPA)
Saudi Arabia is among the top three leading global donors of development and humanitarian aid. (SPA)
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Saudi Arabia’s Contribution to Humanitarian Relief Reaches $130 Billion

Saudi Arabia is among the top three leading global donors of development and humanitarian aid. (SPA)
Saudi Arabia is among the top three leading global donors of development and humanitarian aid. (SPA)

Saudi Arabia has offered a record amount of aid relief to countries in need, reaching 130 billion dollars, revealed new official figures.

This makes the Kingdom among the top three leading global donors of development and humanitarian aid.

From Punjab to Jerusalem

The Kingdom can trace back its record in relief aid to the mid-20th century. In 1950 and under the directives of the founder King Abdulaziz, it sprang to offer humanitarian aid to the victims of floods in Punjab that claimed around 2,900 lives.

The following year, Saudi Arabia set up a major school in Jerusalem where 500 students received comprehensive care and education. King Abdulaziz dedicated 100,000 dollars to the school every year.

Egypt and Yemen

A total of 169 countries have benefitted from the Saudi Arabia’s aid. Six Islamic countries, including five Arab ones, have received the most aid. Egypt tops the list with over 32 billion dollars in aid, followed by Yemen with over 26 billion, Pakistan with around 13 billion, Syria with over 7 billion, Iraq with 7 billion and Palestine with over 5 billion dollars.

Saudi Arabia has executed 7,019 humanitarian, charitable and development projects in these 169 countries. Eighty-eight percent of the projects were dedicated to development.

The number of education projects reached 1,861, food security and agriculture 975, health 750, support and coordination of humanitarian operations 324 and support of budgets 308.

Aid dedicated to the displaced reached 22 billion dollars. Yemeni refugees received over 11 billion dollars alone and Syrians over 6 billion.

KSrelief

On May 13, 2015, Saudi aid embarked on a new chapter with Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s inauguration of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief).

King Salman said at the time that the center will be dedicated to humanitarian aid, away from any other motives, and that it will cooperate with relief organizations to achieve its goals.

Since then, KSrelief has carried out around 2,674 humanitarian and relief projects, worth over 6 billion dollars, in 99 countries. It has focused its energies on vital sectors, such as food, education, health, nutrition, water, shelter and others. It has been carrying out its work without discriminating against nationality or country.