KSRelief, FAO Sign Humanitarian Deal to Support 24,000 Yemeni Farming Families

KSRelief, FAO Sign Humanitarian Deal to Support 24,000 Yemeni Farming Families
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KSRelief, FAO Sign Humanitarian Deal to Support 24,000 Yemeni Farming Families

KSRelief, FAO Sign Humanitarian Deal to Support 24,000 Yemeni Farming Families

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) announced an ambitious new five-year strategic joint cooperation agreement with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

As a first step under the new expanded partnership, KSRelief contributed $5 million to improve the food security and nutrition of more than 24,000 highly vulnerable smallholder farming families in Yemen.

It will provide them with high quality vegetable seeds, tools and irrigation kits and animal feed and mineral blocks, while also offering them training on nutrition-sensitive agriculture to help them improve their diets

The agreement commits the partners to scale up joint action to meet humanitarian needs, address drivers of acute food security and help at-risk agricultural communities build resilience to shocks that undermine their productive potential.

It also outlines efforts to improve knowledge sharing on agricultural best practices, engage in data-driven development work via FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative and advance agricultural innovation to help small-scale food producers achieve better production and build better lives.

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and KSRelief’s Supervisor-General Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Rabeeah signed the agreement at FAO’s Rome headquarters on Tuesday.

“We are looking forward to bolster our partnership not only in the humanitarian arena but also in the area of data and knowledge for development, including work under FAO’s innovative Hand-in-Initiative, which is opening up new opportunities for vulnerable agricultural communities in the Near East and North Africa region and beyond,” said Dongyu.

“By working together, we can make a huge difference in the lives of rural communities pushed to the brink by crises.”

Rabeeah, for his part, said the signing of the agreement represents the expanding partnership between KSRelief and FAO to help many people in need as well as help communities develop to be more resilient and thereby become more self-dependent.

Saudi Arabia and FAO have been long standing partners and with the establishment of KSRelief, ties have become closer and expanded into capacity building and exchange of information.

Both bodies have been keen to address global issues to improve life quality and ensure safer environment.

KSRelief is thrilled to see this relationship become a model to be followed for helping communities and countries in need, he concluded.

Since its establishment in 2005, KSrelief has provided about $33 million in support to FAO emergency and resilience interventions.

KSRelief has been FAO’s largest humanitarian resource partner among the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in addressing food insecurity and malnutrition and reaching to the people in need the most.



Kuwait Revokes Record Number of 930 Citizenships in One Day

The Supreme Committee to Investigate the Kuwaiti Citizenship has decided to revoke and annul the Kuwaiti citizenship of 930 individuals. (KUNA)
The Supreme Committee to Investigate the Kuwaiti Citizenship has decided to revoke and annul the Kuwaiti citizenship of 930 individuals. (KUNA)
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Kuwait Revokes Record Number of 930 Citizenships in One Day

The Supreme Committee to Investigate the Kuwaiti Citizenship has decided to revoke and annul the Kuwaiti citizenship of 930 individuals. (KUNA)
The Supreme Committee to Investigate the Kuwaiti Citizenship has decided to revoke and annul the Kuwaiti citizenship of 930 individuals. (KUNA)

The Supreme Committee to Investigate the Kuwaiti Citizenship has taken a significant step by revoking and annulling the citizenship of 930 individuals, in preparation for presenting their cases to the Cabinet.
The Ministry of Interior announced that the Committee convened on Thursday and made the decision to revoke the Kuwaiti citizenship of 930 individuals. This action is subject to final approval and will be submitted to the Cabinet for further review.
On October 31, the committee revoked the citizenship of 489 individuals, setting a new record for the largest single nationality revocation, surpassing the previous record set on September 20, when 112 individuals had their citizenship annulled.
No official statistics are available on the total number of nationality revocations since the committee began its work in early March, when Kuwaiti authorities launched a campaign aimed at revoking citizenships for various reasons, primarily related to fraud. By the end of September, unofficial estimates suggested that over 2,000 individuals had lost their citizenship, with some cases still pending formal decrees.
Kuwait’s Interior Minister, Sheikh Fahad Yusuf, emphasized that the nationality revocations are aimed at individuals and their dependents who obtained citizenship without fulfilling the legal requirements, particularly those who never received an official decree. He pointed out that some members of previous governments had bypassed legal procedures by approving citizenship applications without awaiting the formal decree.
In a statement to a local newspaper, Sheikh Fahad Yusuf explained that those whose citizenships were revoked did not contest the committee’s decisions, as they were based on clear evidence and proper documentation. He emphasized that the process of nationality revocation would continue, stating: “We are still at the beginning,” and assured that revocations would proceed only after thorough examination and verification of all cases.