UN urges Saudi coalition to end `catastrophic` Yemen aid blockade

The UN on Tuesday urged the Saudi-led coalition to end a blockade which has halted the flow of humanitarian supplies into Yemen.

UN urges Saudi coalition to end `catastrophic` Yemen aid blockade

United Nations: The UN on Tuesday urged the Saudi-led coalition to end a blockade which has halted the flow of humanitarian supplies into Yemen, further threatening some seven million people facing famine-like conditions. 

"If these channels, these lifelines, are not kept open it is catastrophic for people who are already in what we have already called the world`s worst humanitarian crisis," a spokesman for the United Nations humanitarian office, Jens Laerke, told reporters in Geneva. 

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