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Houthi detentions mean aid is ‘untenable’ in rebel-held Yemen, UN says, with 800,000 cut off in Taiz

Taiz, Yemen ·

Shirin Yaseen, associate spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, said the continuing Houthi detention of 71 UN staff makes humanitarian operations in rebel-controlled areas untenable. More than 800,000 people in and around the besieged city of Taiz remain cut off from food and other life-saving aid.

Yemen's Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) controls Sanaa and much of the north, and the country has been divided by a conflict between it and the internationally recognised government since 2014, with Taiz a major front.

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