ADEN
\nThe United Nations has relocated the place of appointment of the resident coordinator for Yemen to Aden, more than a week after at least 18 UN personnel were detained in the capital Sanaa.
\nThe resident coordinator\u2019s office for Yemen said on Tuesday that the office location was changed to Aden, but that the resident coordinator would continue to fulfill his mandate across the country.
\n\u201cThe Resident Coordinator maintains a presence in Sanaa and he will be traveling across the country, including to Sanaa,\u201d the office said.
\nThe foreign ministry of the Aden-based government earlier on Tuesday welcomed the UN\u2019s decision, calling on the body\u2019s other programs to follow suit.
\n\u201cThe Ministry reiterates its strongest condemnation of the continued arbitrary detention of dozens of humanitarian workers by the Houthi militia and calls for their immediate and unconditional release,\u201d it added. The UN previously said that Houthi rebels raided its premises in Sanaa on August 31 and detained UN staff, following an Israeli strike that killed the prime minister of the Houthi-run government and several other ministers. Yemen\u2019s Houthi-run Foreign Ministry said UN officials\u2019 legal immunities should not shield espionage activities.
\nBefore the recent detentions, the Houthis were already holding 23 UN personnel, some since 2021. Another UN staff member died while in Houthi custody in February.
\nYemen has been split between a Houthi administration in Sanaa and a Saudi-backed government in Aden since the Iran-aligned Houthis seized Sanaa in late 2014, triggering a decade-long conflict.
\nThe UN\u2019s World Food Programme said in a statement on Tuesday that the recent escalations by the Houthis were \u201cintolerable,\u201d adding: \u201cThe arbitrary detention of WFP and United Nations staff members, forced entry into UN offices, destruction and seizure of property, and coerced actions against national staff are unacceptable and have severely compromised the ability of WFP and other UN and humanitarian organizations to reach vulnerable communities in northern Yemen.\u201d It called for the release of all aid workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ADEN The United Nations has relocated the place of appointment of the resident coordinator for Yemen to Aden, more than a week after at least 18 UN personnel were detained in the capital Sanaa. The resident coordinator\u2019s office for Yemen said on Tuesday that the office location was changed to Aden, but that the resident […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-503505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n