Time ‘running out’ to reach Yemen’s Taiz amid deepening crisis, UN says

More than 800,000 people have been cut off from aid since the Houthis encircled Taiz city in early October.A mounting humanitarian disaster is gripping Yemen’s Taiz after nearly three weeks of a Houthi siege that has prevented supplies from entering the city, the United Nations has warned.The Iran-backed Houthis have encircled Taiz since early October, cutting off the road that links it to Aden, which serves as the interim capital of Yemen’s internationally recognised government.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Yemenis face severe shortages in Taiz amid Houthi blockadelist 2 of 4Cookies and weapons: Women in Yemen’s Taiz find ways to help the city’s defencelist 3 of 4Yemen’s government accuses Houthis of airport attacks in Aden, Mukallalist 4 of 4Fighting rages in Yemen’s Taiz as UN warns nearly 260,000 displacedend of listLittle fuel, food or other supplies have reached the city since.“It’s 20 days and counting since Taiz has been cut off,” Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN’s humanitarian arm, OCHA, told a news conference in Geneva on Friday. “We are seeing increasingly that the fighting makes it impossible for us to get in and impossible for people to get out.”Mos...