{"id":17947,"date":"2025-09-01T03:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17947"},"modified":"2025-09-01T03:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:04:24","slug":"wfp-says-yemens-huthis-detained-agency-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17947","title":{"rendered":"WFP says Yemen’s Huthis detained agency employee"},"content":{"rendered":"
The UN’s World Food Programme said that Yemen’s Huthis detained one of its employees in the rebel-held capital Sanaa on Sunday, with more staff members feared apprehended elsewhere in the country.<\/p>\n

“WFP’s offices in Sanaa were entered by local security forces who have detained a staff member, with reports of other detentions (of staff) in other areas,” the agency said in a statement to AFP.<\/p>\n

It added that it was “urgently seeking additional information” from the Huthi authorities, who seized the capital Sanaa in 2014 and now control large parts of Yemen. A security source told AFP that seven WFP employees and three UNICEF workers were arrested on Sunday after their offices had been raided.<\/p>\n

The WFP statement said that “the arbitrary detention of humanitarian staff is unacceptable. The safety and security of personnel is essential to carrying out life-saving humanitarian work.”<\/p>\n

Following an Israeli strike on Sanaa on Thursday that killed the Iran-backed group’s prime minister, a Yemeni security source told AFP that Huthi authorities had arrested dozens of people in Sanaa and other areas “on suspicion of collaborating with Israel”.<\/p>\n

In January, the rebels detained eight UN workers, adding to dozens of UN and aid group personnel held since June 2024.<\/p>\n

The Huthis claimed the June arrests included “an American-Israeli spy network” operating under the cover of humanitarian organisations — allegations emphatically rejected by the UN.<\/p>\n

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in June demanded “their immediate and unconditional release”, and lamented the “deplorable tragedy” of the death in detention of a WFP staffer earlier this year.<\/p>\n

A decade of civil war has plunged Yemen into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with more than half of the population relying on aid.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UN’s World Food Programme said that Yemen’s Huthis detained one of its employees in the rebel-held capital Sanaa on Sunday, with more staff members feared apprehended elsewhere in the country. “WFP’s offices in Sanaa were entered by local security forces who have detained a staff member, with reports of other detentions (of staff) in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}