Aid agencies beg for key Yemeni port to remain open for food deliveries
Geneva — UN aid agencies called on Tuesday for the Yemeni port of Hodeidah to remain open after Friday, the date set by a Saudi-led military coalition, to permit the continued delivery of life-saving goods. Yemen was the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, where 8.3-million people were entirely dependent on external food aid and 400,000 children suffered from severe acute malnutrition, a potentially lethal condition, they said. The Arab coalition, under international pressure, eased the blockade that was imposed on Yemeni ports and airports in November in response to a ballistic missile fired by the Houthi movement towards Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Four mobile cranes arrived in Houthi-controlled Hodeidah port, the UN said on Monday, after the coalition agreed to let them into Yemen, where nearly three years of war have pushed it to the verge of famine. "The port, in theory, is going be open to the 19th of this month. Then we don’t know if the coalition will close or [leave...
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