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The Saudi-led coalition is still blocking desperately-needed UN aid deliveries to Yemen despite the reopening of the port of Aden and of a land border crossing, a UN spokesman said.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\t“Humanitarian movements into Yemen remain blocked,” said Russell Geekie, spokesman for the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian aid OCHA, AFP reported.<\/p>\n

\n\t“The reopening of the port in Aden is not enough. We need to see the blockade of all the ports lifted, especially Hodeida, for both humanitarians and for commercial imports.”<\/p>\n

\n\tThe coalition shut down Yemen’s borders on Monday in response to a missile attack by Yemen that was intercepted near Riyadh airport.<\/p>\n

\n\tUN aid chief, Mark Lowcock, told the Security Council this week that unless the blockade is lifted, Yemen will face “the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims.”<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter an outcry from the United Nations, the coalition on Wednesday reopened Aden, which is controlled by pro-Saudi forces, and on Thursday opened the land crossing at Wadea on the Saudi-Yemen border.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Geekie said no aid had gone into Aden yet and the reopening of the Wadea crossing did not affect UN operations.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sea port at Hodeida, which is controlled by the Houthi Ansarullah movement, is key to UN aid efforts as it is closest to the majority of people in need.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe coalition accuses Houthi forces of using aid shipments to smuggle in weapons.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore the blockade, UN aid agencies were delivering food and medicine through Hodeida, Saleef and Aden ports.<\/p>\n

\n\t“There can be no alternative for all these ports being fully functional and receiving commercial and humanitarian cargo,” said the spokesman.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe United Nations has listed Yemen as the world’s number one humanitarian crisis, with 17 million people in need of food, seven million of whom are at risk of famine.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore than 2,000 Yemenis have died in a cholera outbreak now affecting nearly one million people.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaudi Arabia and its allies intervened in neighboring Yemen in March 2015 to push back the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, and reinstall the former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the past two-and-a-half years, Yemen has been under heavy airstrikes by Saudi Arabia\u2019s warplanes as part of the brutal war against the Arabian Peninsula country.<\/p>\n

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