According to the United Nations, five of their Department of Safety and Security Personnel who were kidnapped in 2022 in Yemen have been released. The official statement reads below:
The Secretary-General @antonioguterres is delighted to learn of the release of the five @UNDSS personnel who had been kidnapped in Yemen on 11 February 2022. Available information suggests that all five colleagues are in good health.
Full statement: https://t.co/k5V4oSSgfH
— UN Spokesperson (@UN_Spokesperson) August 11, 2023
According to Russell Geekie, a spokesman for the top U.N., the five United Nations staff were abducted in southern Yemen while returning to Aden after a field mission five years ago.
This release did not include Akam Sofyol Anam who was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda more than six years ago in Yemen who appeared in a late-2022 captor video. It is unclear if the two abductions were related in terms of the captors.
