Time running out for Yemen’s Taiz after 20 days under Houthi siege, UN warns

Time running out for Yemen’s Taiz after 20 days under Houthi siege, UN warns Time is running out to get aid into Taiz, besieged by Houthis who are preventing supplies from reaching Yemen 's third-largest city, the United Nations said on Friday. Houthi fighters have encircled Taiz since early October, blocking the road that links it to Aden, interim capital of Yemen’s internationally recognised government. "Safe, sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access is urgently needed so that essential supplies and life-saving assistance can reach people in need," said the UN humanitarian agency OCHA.…