RIYADH: Saudi Arabia pledged $500 million of support to Yemen on Tuesday as the Kingdom hosted a major international donor conference. The money will go toward the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan 2020 and COVID-19 Response Plan, Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, the supervisor general of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), said. “We are meeting today amid the conditions the world is facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and all the economic, health and political challenges that it has caused,” Al-Rabeeah told the virtual conference. He said of the Saudi pledge, some $300 million would go to UN agencies working in Yemen and $200 million would be allocated to KSRelief.