DUBAI: The Yemeni government has called on the United Nations to move to second city Aden after Huthi rebels seized its office in the capital Sanaa and detained dozens of staff from international organisations.
“We reiterate the call for the United Nations mission, all UN agencies, international organisations operating in Yemen... to immediately move their headquarters to the interim capital, Aden, and the liberated areas,” Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani said on Tuesday on social media platform X.
The Iran-backed Huthis overran the capital Sanaa in 2014 and hold most of the country´s main population centres, forcing the internationally recognised government to flee to Aden.
A Saudi-led coalition intervened to prop up the beleaguered government the following year. On Tuesday, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said the rebels had entered its Sanaa office on August 3 and forced its staff to hand over the office keys and all its property. “This serious development comes nearly two months after the wave of kidnappings launched by the Huthi militia,” Eryani said, adding it was an escalation of the rebel movement´s “repressive measures against international and humanitarian organisations operating in the areas under its control”.
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