The EU is maintaining its offices in Yemen despite the UN's World Food Programme closing operations in vast rebel-held parts of the country over security concerns, a senior official has said.
Hadja Lahbi, the European commissioner for humanitarian aid, told The National there is a growing problem because “increasingly, saving lives is costing the lives of those who are precisely trying to provide aid and alleviate suffering”.
Yemen is in the grip of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, after more than 10 years of civil war.
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