- Halfway through 2010, CERF has allocated $245.5 million to UN country teams in 34 countries. Allocations are at the same pace as 2008, the busiest year in the Fund's history.

- Although the food sector historically receives the largest percentage of CERF funding, health projects have received the greatest share in the first half of 2010. CERF has allocated 17.7 percent of all funds for health programs. In Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, CERF funding is being used to fight a polio outbreak; polio had been declared

The United States urges other donors to support international agencies working to meet these urgent humanitarian needs, as the United Nation's Humanitarian Response Plan remains woefully underfunded. We also call on all parties to ensure the safety and rights

It explains that militiamen came to her house in September 2007. "They hit [my husband] badly and wanted to rape me in front of him. He tried to protect me, but unfortunately they killed [him] with a big knife. I was seven months pregnant."

After that she took her three children

* Gunmen kill 10 security men in attack in port of Aden

* Attackers freed detainees, official says

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ADEN, June 19 (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a police headquarters in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Saturday, killing 10 security men, and a police official said the attackers freed several detainees.

Yemen is struggling to curb a growing separatist movement in the south and cement a ceasefire with Shi'ite rebels in the north. It is under international pressure to quell domestic conflicts

- Somalia is the country generating the highest number of refugees in the world, after Afghanistan and Iraq

- Somali people are facing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world today. One in every seven Somali children dies before the age of five and one in every five children living in the South-Central region is malnourished

- UNHCR leads humanitarian agencies' protection and shelter/non food items interventions targeting 1.4 million IDPs, in addition to delivering protection and assistance to 1,800 refugees in Somalia

Contacts:
In Washington: Hafed Al-Ghwell, 202-473-8930, halghwell@worldbank.org
In Sana'a: Mujahed Ali Hassen Al Mussaabi, (967) 1-421623-8 EX: 227, malmussaabi@worldbank.org

WASHINGTON, June 17, 2010 - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors today approved a grant from the International Development Association (IDA), in the amount of $ 10 million, to develop and implement a new poverty-based targeting policy and strengthen Yemen's Social Welfare Fund's (SWF) administration and management of its Cash Transfer

* WFP says withdrawal could lead to instability

* Yemen govt says threats exaggerated

By Raissa Kasolowsky

HAJJA, Yemen, June 15 (Reuters) - The flour, oil and sugar which Yemeni mother of five Fairouz gets as food aid three times a month to turn into porridge to supplement her children's meagre diet is not nearly enough to feed her hungry brood.

But by September, it may be gone.

The 36-year-old is among around half a million Yemenis who receive help from the World Food Programme (WFP)