United Nations, Aug. 10 -- Life-saving food aid distribution is set to resume to 850,000 people in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, following guarantees by Houthi opposition forces that the supplies will reach those who need them most, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
Under a deal that ends a partial two-month break in WFP assistance to Houthi-held areas of the war-torn country after the agency said that humanitarians were being denied access and local authorities were interfering with deliveries, spokesperson Herve Verhoosel insisted that a new registration process had been agreed.
"We have written guarantees from the Houthis," he said, in reference to a document signed with the Sana'a-based authorities, on Saturday 3 August.
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