The new American administration had promised it.
She kept her word.
Joe Biden's government suspended for a month its sanctions on transactions with pro-Iranian Houthi rebels, classified as
“terrorists”
by the Trump administration, just ten days before he left office.
This measure had been denounced by the United Nations and NGOs, who feared that it would worsen the
"worst humanitarian crisis"
hitting a poor country, bankrupt, and bruised by years of war.
The US Treasury once again authorizes all transactions with the rebel group until February 26, but it does not allow funds already frozen before the entry into force of this sanction to be released.
"It is a positive signal which indicates that the new Administration understands the catastrophe which was announced if the decision of the Trump administration had been maintained,
declares to
Figaro
of Yemen Riona Judge McCormack, of the NGO Norwegian Refugee Council.
But we need that
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