MSF says two of its staff disappeared in Marib

MARIB, Aug 29 (YPA) – The international humanitarian aid group “Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières” (MSF) announced on Monday that it had lost contact with two of its employees in Yemen.

The organization said in a statement, reported by Reuters, that the employees, from Germany and Myanmar, are in the Marib governorate in central Yemen.

The organization added that it would not share further details out of concern for the workers’ safety.

The sources confirmed that the kidnapping of foreign employees took place despite the presence of dozens of military forces  points belonging to the Islah factions loyal to the Saudi-led  coalition.

No party has so far claimed responsibility for the incident, but it comes in the context of the increasing attacks and abduction of foreign workers in UN humanitarian organizations in areas controlled by the coalition’s militants.

According to observers, this operation comes within the framework of the growing struggle between factions loyal to the coalition over humanitarian grants.

E.M