Islah militia pushes int’l organizations to leave Marib city

SANAA, Feb. 16 (YPA) – A number of international organizations left on Tuesday Marib city, days after the Islah Party militias loyal to Saudi-led coalition kidnapped a UN employee and put him in the so-called “Military Intelligence prison” in the city.

Local sources in Marib province stated that international organizations operating in Marib left the city in protest against the Islah militia’s kidnapping of a UN employee last week.

On February 11, the international organizations operating in Marib, topped by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), threatened in a statement with withdrawing from the city in protest against the Islah militia’s kidnapping of the engineer Yahya Hamid and placing him in the Military Intelligence prison.

YPA