A vessel carrying the first shipment of food aid in three weeks docked Sunday (November 26th) at the Houthi-controlled Red Sea port of Saleef in western Yemen, AFP reported.
Abeer Etefa, a spokesperson for the World Food Programme for the Middle East and North Africa region, said some 25,000 tonnes of wheat will be offloaded early on Monday.
She said "strong winds" were preventing the offloading from taking place on Sunday.
Saleef port is around 70 kilometres north of the key port of al-Hodeida, also on the Red Sea and in the hands of the Houthis (Ansarallah).
Al-Hodeida port is the main conduit for UN-supervised deliveries of food and medicine and vital to UN efforts as it is closest to the majority of people in need.
The UN humanitarian affairs office had said on Friday that it was able to resume flights into Sanaa.
But it added that desperately needed shipments of food and medicines to al-Hodeida remained blocked.
