The U.N. must stop being the Houthis’ willing hostage in Yemen

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The U.N. must stop being the Houthis’ willing hostage in Yemen

On February 12, 2025, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres demanded an investigation into the death of a World Food Progamme worker, killed after years-long Houthi captivity. It should be an easy investigation: That worker, a Yemeni national known publicly only by his first name Ahmed, would be alive today had Guterres not displayed lethal cowardice and incompetence. It has been more than a decade since the Houthis seized Yemen’s ca…