The United States has allocated additional $89 million in humanitarian aid to Yemen, US State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters, Sputnik reported.
"I am pleased to announce that more than $89 million in addition assistance to help people affected by the ongoing conflict in Yemen, including nearly $71 million for United States Agency for International Development and more than $18 million from the Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration," Toner said.
The violence in Yemen, Toner noted, has left 80 percent of the country's population in need of urgent humanitarian aid.
Toner explained the new funding will support the efforts of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other international organizations in Yemen.
"[The new funding] brings the total US humanitarian assistance in response to the crisis in Yemen to nearly to $170 million in 2015," he added.
Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict since the country's main opposition group, the Houthis, forced the country's president government to resign in January.