UN Urges Saudi Arabia to Allow Journalists in Yemen

The United Nations on Wednesday demanded media access to report on the "man-made catastrophe" in Yemen after a Saudi Arabia-led coalition blocked three foreign journalists from traveling on a UN aid flight to the Arab country’s capital Sana’a.


"Steps like this do not help," UN spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters in New York, according to Reuters.

"This has been a large man-made humanitarian problem, the world needs to know and journalists need to have access."

Haq said the UN humanitarian air service had been allowed to take off on Wednesday and had landed in Sana’a carrying 26 humanitarian aid workers, but not the three journalists from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

"This partially explains why Yemen, which is one of the world's largest humanitarian crises, is not getting enough attention in international media," he said.

"The lack of coverage is hindering humanitarian workers efforts to draw the attention of the international community and donors to the man-made catastrophe that the country is experiencing," he said.
 (Tasnim)
20/7/17