""These circumstances, combined with a challenging funding environment, have resulted in the need for WFP to end the contracts of 365 staff members," he said."
"These local staff constituted "all the WFP members in the areas under the control of the de-facto Houthi authorities," he said."
"'Houthi obstructionism has left the mission without a purpose, and it has to close,' Tammy Bruce of the US delegation said, as 13 of 15 Council mem"
The World Food Program will end operations in northern, Houthi-held Yemen and terminate contracts for 365 local staff by the end of March. The suspension follows detentions of 38 employees in raids and ongoing harassment by Houthi authorities, alongside an insecure operating environment and funding shortfalls. International staff were already withdrawn. The shutdown is expected to worsen humanitarian conditions amid a long-running civil war that began in 2014. The UN Security Council also voted to end a mission enforcing a fragile ceasefire in Hodeida, with US representatives citing Houthi obstructionism as the reason for that mission's closure.
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