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UN council briefing warns of rising hunger, collapsing health services and detained aid staff in Yemen
Summary
Representative Raja Sengham told the Security Council that Yemen’s humanitarian situation has worsened, citing detained UN and NGO staff, escalating food insecurity affecting roughly half the population, and widespread health facility closures; he urged members to press for releases and increase funding.
Representative Raja Sengham briefed the United Nations Security Council on the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Yemen, saying access for aid workers is contracting even as needs rise and funding has not kept pace. He warned the situation is driving large-scale hunger, the collapse of basic health services and increased risk of infectious disease spread.
"The result is that millions of Yemenis are not receiving the aid they needed to survive," Raja Sengham said, adding that "the continued detention of [UN] staff continues to severely restrict critical humanitarian work." He reiterated "the secretary general's call for the de facto authorities to rescind the referral of UN colleagues to special criminal courts and to work in good faith toward the immediate…
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