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US Could Cut Funding to Northern Yemen Aid Groups

Margaret Besheer

   UNITED NATIONS - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations warned
   Tuesday that Washington could halt its support to humanitarian agencies
   operating in Houthi-controlled northern Yemen as early as March, if the
   Iranian-backed rebels do not stop undermining relief distribution.

   "The United States is also extremely concerned by mounting Houthi
   interference with the work of aid partners in northern Yemen, which
   limits the ability of the U.N. and other humanitarian organizations to
   deliver assistance to the most vulnerable Yemenis," U.S. Ambassador
   Kelly Craft told a U.N. Security Council meeting about Yemen.

   Nearly 80 percent of Yemen's population -- or 24 million people --
   receive some form of humanitarian assistance or protection.

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