Ansarullah orders US, British UN staff to leave Yemen

Yemen’s Ansarullah officials have ordered US and British nationals working for the United Nations and humanitarian organizations in the capital Sana’a to leave the country within a month.

Yemen’s Foreign Ministry gave the order in a letter to Peter Hawkins, the UN’s acting humanitarian coordinator in Yemen on Wednesday, after US and UK carried out a new round of military strikes across the country in response to attacks by Yemeni armed forces on Israeli-linked vessels in the Red Sea.

“The ministry … would like to stress that you must inform officials and workers with US and British citizenships to prepare to leave the country within 30 days,” the letter said.

The letter also instructed foreign organizations to not hire American and British citizens for Yemen’s operations.