US blacklisting of Houthis 'could tip Yemen into huge famine'
The US plan to designate Yemen's rebel Houthi movement as a terrorist group is likely to trigger a "famine on a scale that we have not seen for nearly 40 years", the UN's aid chief says./ Mark Lowcock will tell the UN Security Council that issuing licences for imports of key supplies for rebel-held areas will not prevent such a disaster./ About 50,000 Yemenis are already "starving to death in what is essentially a small famine", he warns./ Yemen has been devastated by a conflict that escalated in 2015, when the Iran-aligned Houthis seized ...
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