Thousands of tonnes of Yemen food aid diverted by fighting - U.N. officials


  • World
  • Monday, 01 Jun 2015

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of tonnes of food aid for war-ravaged Yemen have been diverted from the port of Aden because of heavy fighting there, U.N. officials said on Monday.

It is the latest setback for aid agencies trying to reach hundreds of thousands of desperate people in the Arabian peninsula's poorest country amid a Saudi-led bombing campaign against Houthi fighters.

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