WFP resumes grain milling in the Red Sea Mills‏

The UN World Food Programme has resumed the milling of grain for food aid to population in Yemen after a halt in late December due to shelling damage, the agency said on Monday .

Artillery fire on Dec 26 damaged WFP grain stores at the Red Sea Mills located on the front line in the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah.

According to WFP statement, the Milling resumed on Dec 30.

The mill and silos have become a focal point of the conflict in Hodeidah, where the United Nations is trying to enforce a ceasefire and troop withdrawal agreed a year ago at peace talks in Stockholm.

The Red Sea Mills lie on a front line between forces loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's internationally recognised government and those of the Iran-aligned Houthi militia.

The stores were off limits for around six months from late 2018 and at risk of rotting until the WFP negotiated access in February and began cleaning and milling what had been enough grain to feed 3.7 million people for a month.

So far just over 4,500 tonnes have been milled into flour and dispatched, the statement said.

The war has severely hit food supplies in Yemen and millions of people are at risk of starvation in what aid agencies describe as one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.