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Aid chief: US naming Yemen rebels terrorists a famine threat

by Edith M. Lederer
| January 14, 2021 12:10 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is urging the United States to reverse its decision to declare Yemen’s Houthi rebels a terrorist group, warning that the designation will likely lead to “a large-scale famine on a scale that we have not seen for nearly 40 years.”

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