The second military zone in the Yemeni army announced the foiling of a suicide attack, the killing of two suicide bombers and the arrest of three in the Wadi Dohan in Hadramou. According to official statement, the Yemeni forces managed to prevent a suicide attack with a car bomb, as the Yemeni forces managed to explode the car at a point far from the targeted camp in Dohan.
After the explosion, another car was escorted by the suicide bomber and its occupants of the terrorist elements fired directly at the soldiers. Following an exchange of fire between soldiers and terrorist elements, two suicide bombers and the families of three terrorist elements were killed.
Saudi Arabia and the World Bank agreed to commit $300 million towards an aid package that would address Yemen's immediate food security needs, officials said at a news conference in Riyadh on Wednesday (May 10). The World Bank suggested a total package of $500 million to finance imports of rice and wheat by Yemeni merchants, said Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan.
“The World Bank has offered $200 million and the kingdom is ready to provide $100 million. So only 60 percent of this expected fund was covered in this meeting. We expect that the rest will be covered in the coming weeks," al-Jadaan said.
It came as the World Bank prepared a draft reconstruction plan to rebuild Yemen's shattered education, health and electricity infrastructure, but has not yet estimated a total cost, according to the bank's regional vice president.
"A lot of people are asking me, isn't it early? Shouldn't we wait until the end of the conflict before we start reconstruction? I tell them no, for two reasons. First of all, there are areas in Yemen where it's possible to (start) work already. There are big needs in these areas. Secondly, when we work on reconstruction, we hope that it will give hope to the Yemenis and a push to achieve peace in Yemen," Vice President of the World Bank for the Middle East and Africa, Hafez Ghanem, said.
Yemen's war, which pits the Iran-allied Houthi movement and elements of the military against the Saudi-backed internationally recognized government, has largely stalemated in different battlefronts across the country.
The conflict has killed more than 10,000 people and plunged millions more into poverty, while demolishing Yemen's fragile economy, health system and largely imported food supply. Nearly 17 million of Yemen's 28 million people are now deemed "food insecure" by aid groups.
A United Nations pledging conference for Yemen last month raised promises of $1.1 billion, about half of what it says is needed this year to head off a famine.