UN envoy Angelina Jolie in Yemen


“As we continue to watch the horrors unfolding in Ukraine and call for an immediate end to the conflict and humanitarian access, I am here in Yemen to support people who also desperately need peace. The situation here is one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world,” Jolie said in a post on her Instagram account.

Also on Sunday, an armed group kidnapped two foreigners working with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Yemen’s east, a government source said, as the charity confirmed it had “lost contact” with some staff.“An armed group kidnapped two MSF workers, one a German national and the other Mexican, in Hadramawt,” a Yemeni interior ministry source told Agence France-Presse, adding that a “military campaign” was underway to track down the kidnappers.

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