Published date: 11 January 2021 17:57 UTC
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Last update: 2 months 1 week ago
Like millions of Yemenis, Abdulmalik Mohammed lives under Houthi control and struggles to secure enough food to feed his family of six.
The 45-year-old is the only breadwinner and was displaced from his home in Hodiedah in 2017. He is totally dependent on humanitarian aid.
But now the United States has placed his only source of food in jeopardy. On Monday, outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed the news that was long feared by aid groups in Yemen: Washington was designating the Iran-aligned Houthi movement as a terrorist group.
It is a move NGOs working on the ground have warned could severely disrupt their ability to provide assistance in what the UN refers to as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.