UN: US Plan to Blacklist Yemeni Houthis May Cause ‘Humanitarian and Political Repercussions’

On 10 January7

On 10 January, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the State Department would add Yemen’s Houthi movement to its list of terrorist organizations, who are claimed to be continuing a long-standing brutal confrontation with the country’s government forces led by President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.

United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric warned during a 11 January briefing that the US intention to brand Yemen’s Houthi movement as a terrorist organization is “likely to have serious humanitarian and political repercussions.”

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