Two aid workers have been killed in Yemen after they were kidnapped by unknown armed men, the United Arab Emirates branch of the Red Crescent said.
The Emirates Red Crescent tweeted that it “expresses its deep regret and condemnation of the loss of Ahmed Fouad al-Yousefi, Coordinator of ERC Operations in Aden, and his fellow Mohamed Tareq, in one of the world’s most vulnerable and complex humanitarian zones”.
According to the statement, the men were found dead after they were kidnapped in the southern port city of Aden.
Yemen has been torn by war since 2014, when Houthi rebels seized the capital and ousted the government of president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. A Saudi-UAE led military coalition allied with the government intervened in 2015.
But a separate conflict has been raging in the south between government forces and southern separatists, backed by the UAE. The two parties signed a power-sharing deal in Riyadh last November, with little sign of implementation so far.
Over 100,000 people were killed in the war and more than 3 million were displaced since the beginning of the war.
Two aid workers killed in Yemen
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Men walk amongst debris of a destroyed house allegedly hit by a previous Saudi-led airstrike in Sana'a, Yemen, 19 September 2019. Yemen has been in the grip of a devastating power struggle between the Saudi-backed government and the Houthi rebels since late 2014, which sparked a full-blown armed conflict in March 2015 when the Saudi-led military coalition launched an airstrike campaign against the Houthis, claiming the lives of almost 100,000 people and displacing more than 3.6 million.
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