Sahra Mo­hamed Ali Saman­tar, the Min­is­ter of Women & Hu­man Rights De­vel­op­ment of So­ma­lia warns the de­press­ing sit­u­a­tion of the refugees flee­ing from Yemen.

Min­is­ter Saman­tar said “The Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment of So­ma­lia is do­ing all it can to help those refugees com­ing to So­ma­lia from Yemen as a re­sult of the cri­sis in Yemen.

The Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment es­tab­lished Na­tional Com­mit­tee on the cri­sis and so far they have done a great job by mo­bi­liz­ing com­mu­ni­ties and rais­ing funds. How­ever, the in­fluxes of con­tin­ual refugees seek­ing for help are greater than what the Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment of So­ma­lia can deal with.

Even though we are thank­ful for the ini­tial as­sis­tance from IOM and other UN Agen­cies, how­ever, the sit­u­a­tion still de­mands greater at­ten­tion of the world.”

Min­is­ter Saman­tar noted that if the de­te­ri­o­rat­ing sit­u­a­tion is not ad­dressed as quickly as pos­si­ble; the world will wit­ness one of the most se­ri­ous hu­mankind dis­as­ters. How­ever, the Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment of So­ma­lia takes re­spon­si­bil­ity on the sit­u­a­tion, and will do all it takes to wel­come refugees from Yemen, but we have to be hon­est with our­selves that we can­not cope all the de­mands and rights of these refugees.

Min­is­ter Saman­tar com­mented “ As a Min­is­ter re­spon­si­ble for women and hu­man rights de­vel­op­ment, I must say that we as cit­i­zens of the world have failed to pro­vide suf­fi­cient sup­port and as­sis­tance to the refugees flee­ing from Yemen. It is the re­spon­si­bil­ity of all hu­man kind, world lead­ers, gov­ern­ments, and hu­man­i­tar­ian agen­cies to en­sure that we pro­tect these refugees who most of them have be­ing refugees more than twice.

They de­serve our full and un­com­pro­mised at­ten­tion to sup­port them. Imag­ine if your fam­ily, your wife, your chil­dren, your grand­chil­dren, are one of those fam­i­lies flee­ing from Yemen, I am sure you would have done all you can to sup­port.

As a mother, a min­is­ter, a hu­man rights ac­tivist, as a cit­i­zen of the world, I see no dif­fer­ence be­tween our own fam­i­lies and those flee­ing from Yemen and other cri­sis around the globe. On a daily ba­sis, I cry and pray for all refugees around the world, be­cause, I know that if the world gives enough at­ten­tion on refugees and In­ter­nally Dis­placed Peo­ple, the world would have been a safer place to live in.

If we all act to­gether, I be­lieve that every child and every mother would have re­ceived all their ba­sic rights in­clud­ing clean wa­ter, shel­ter, food, school­ing for chil­dren and a liveli­hood that is ac­cept­able to all.”

Refugees flee­ing from Yemen are fac­ing an even gloomier fu­ture with­out more in­ter­na­tional sup­port. Fi­nally, the Min­is­ter con­cluded her re­marks and said; “I would like to re­it­er­ate that much more is needed to be done to al­le­vi­ate the suf­fer­ing of refugees flee­ing from their homes due to the cri­sis in Yemen.

The sit­u­a­tion and the cri­sis de­mands our col­lec­tive and global out­cry of sup­port and I hope that this ap­peal will make a huge dif­fer­ence to the lives of all refugees around the globe, and in par­tic­u­lar those flee­ing from the cur­rent cri­sis in Yemen.”