U.N. aid chief to urge U.S. to reverse plan to blacklist Yemen's Houthis

U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock will on Thursday urge the United States to reverse its plan to designate Yemen's Houthi group as a foreign terrorist organization, warning the move would push the country into a "famine on a scale that we have not seen for nearly forty years."

In a planned briefing to the U.N. Security Council, seen by Reuters, Lowcock will also say that a U.S. plan to issue licenses and exemptions to aid agencies will not prevent a famine in Yemen.