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‘Outraged’: WFP says staff member died while detained in northern Yemen

Displaced Yemenis receive humanitarian aid provided by the World Food Programme in the Hays region of Yemen [File: Khaled Zias/AFP]

An aid worker from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has died in a Yemeni prison three weeks after being detained in the country’s north, according to the organisation.

The announcement on Tuesday comes a day after the UN suspended aid operations in the northern region of Saada, citing detentions of its staff by the Houthi group, which controls the area.

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