A staff member held captive by Huthi rebels in Yemen was reported by the UN’s world food programme ( WFP ) on Tuesday that has passed away.
In a speech on X, the organization stated that” WFP is grieving and outraged about the demise of a team member while in northeastern Yemen.”
Although the situation of his death were not disclosed, he was reportedly a Yemeni team member who had been arbitrarily detained by regional authorities since January 23.
The individual, who WFP said had worked for the UN since 2017, left behind a wife and two children.
After the insurgents detained several personnel there this year, the UN announced the expulsion of its activities on Monday in Yemen’s Saada place, a Huthi enclave.
The Iran-backed Huthis have arrested lots of employees from the UN and other charitable companies, most of them since the middle of 2024, as Yemen’s decade-long legal war grinds on.
Eight UN employees were detained in January together, including six in Saada, which adds to the dozens of NGO and UN staff detained since June.
The Huthis claimed the June detention included” an American-Israeli spy system” operating under the support of humanitarian institutions- claims emphatically rejected by the UN Human Rights Office.
Yemen has become one of the worst charitable problems in a generation, according to the UN.
