Foreign UN staff confined to Yemen compound by Houthis since Saturday


UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Fifteen international staff with the United Nations have been confined to the U.N. compound in the Yemen’s capital Sanaa since an incursion by the Houthi authorities on Saturday, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.

He said the staff are now free to move around the compound and have been in contact with their families and U.N. agencies, adding: “We hope that they will be free to leave the compound as soon as possible.”

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