UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — The shortage led to a 28 percent increase of the food price in August-September, according to the spokesman.
"Only one percent of the monthly requirements for commercial fuel for Yemen were imported through Red Sea ports during September," Haq said Monday citing the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
He added that last month 12 percent of the required amount of fuel was delivered.
Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict since the country’s main opposition group, the Houthis, forced the country’s government to resign in January.
A coalition of Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, has been conducting airstrikes in Yemen at the request of ousted President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi since March, in an attempt to push the Houthi forces out of the areas under their control.
Over 20 million people, or around 80 percent of Yemen's population, are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance amid the ongoing military conflict in Yemen, according to the United Nations.
