The United Nations food agency is shutting down its operations in the northern, rebel-held part of Yemen, following restrictions and harassment by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, UN officials said on ...

SANAA, Yemen — The United Nations food agency is shutting down its operations and laying off hundreds of workers in the northern part of Yemen held by the Houthis ...

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations food agency is shutting down its operations in the northern, rebel-held part of Yemen, following restrictions imposed by the Houthi rebels and harassment from the ...

The UN's World Food Program is dissolving contracts with staff in Houthi-controlled northern Yemen. It first suspended operations, after more than a decade of internal conflict, in August amid a ...

The World Food Programme is ending the contracts of all 365 staff in Houthi-controlled Yemen, a UN official told AFP on Thursday, effectively ending operations in a zone gravely afflicted by hunger.