[AnNahar] United Nations...a formerly good idea gone bad...
officials in the Horn of Africa port of Djibouti said Saturday they had taken charge of the aid cargo carried by an Iranian boat headed for war-torn Yemen.
The vessel, the MV Shahed, is carrying 2,500 tonnes of aid including flour, rice, canned food, medical supplies and bottled water, all urgently needed in the conflict-wracked state just across the Gulf of Aden from Djibouti.
"The cargo has been handed over to WFP in Djibouti and is currently being offloaded," said U.N. World Food Program spokeswoman Abeer Etefa told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The ship carries 2,500 ton of humanitarian aid and that includes mainly rice and wheat flour, as well as medicine, water, tents and blankets."
Djiboutian authorities said the Iranian fat merchantman arrived late Friday night in the Gulf of Aden port.
"The ship will be completely unloaded and reloaded onto other vessels, everything is transparent," Djibouti port authority chief Abubaker Hadi told AFP.
The ship's mission was overshadowed by U.S. calls for it to head to a U.N. emergency relief hub in Djibouti instead of docking in the Yemeni port of Hodeida.
Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
accuses Iran of arming Yemen's Houthis, but Tehran denies the charge.
Iran says it is helping in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
by opposing air strikes and providing aid.
All aid and humanitarian assistance will be sent on WFP ships to Yemen, either in the port of Hodeida, or the southern port of Aden, Etefa added.