US EditionYemen’s Houthi rebels raid a UN facility but all staff are reported safe
- Sunday, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels detained two dozen U.N. employees, including five Yemenis and 15 international staff, at a U.N. facility in Hada, Sanaa, and seized all communications equipment.
- The Houthis have launched a long-running crackdown on U.N. and other international organisations across Sanaa, Hodeida and Sadaa, detaining over 50 U.N. staffers and alleging without evidence they were spies.
- U.N. officials said staff came from multiple agencies including the World Food Program, UNICEF and OCHA, while rebels released 11 U.N. staffers after questioning and a WFP worker died earlier this year.
- The U.N. said it is contacting the Houthis and other parties to resolve detentions, fiercely denied espionage claims, and suspended operations in Saada province after earlier arrests.
- The U.N. relocated its top humanitarian coordinator in Yemen from Sanaa to Aden, as a crackdown in rebel-held areas detains over 50 staff and raises safety concerns after a WFP death earlier this year.
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Iranian-backed Houthis detain two dozen UN employees in Sanaa raid
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels detained around two dozen United Nations employees in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Sunday, in what UN officials described as a serious escalation of the rebels’ crackdown on international organisations operating in areas under their control.
Sanaa, Yemen.- The Houthi rebels are holding 20 United Nations employees in Sana'a, including British Peter Hawkins, representative of Unicef in Yemen, a country at war, announced on Sunday representatives of the agency. Insurgents, who control the Yemeni capital and large areas of the territory, had already launched a raid on UN personnel the previous day. "Five national staff and 15 international staff members are detained in the United Nation…
UNICEF's representative in Yemen, the British Peter Hawkins, is one of the people detained in Sana'a. By the end of August, the rebels had already stormed UN offices, holding employees suspected of spying.
A UN official announced on Sunday that 20 UN employees in Yemen were detained by the Houthi group, including British national Peter Hawkins, after they stormed a UN compound in Sanaa...
The Houthis carried out a raid yesterday, arresting 20 UN employees
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Japan TodayYemen's Houthi rebels detain 20 U.N. employees and confiscate equipment
CAIRO — Iranian-backed Houthi rebels detained two dozen U.N. employees Sunday, a day after they raided another U.N. facility in the capital Sanaa,...
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