EU blacklists Yemen's Houthi terrorist militia

The European Union (EU) has added the Yemeni Houthi militia to the black list of the union, after Houthi militia, lately, carried out attacks that injured civilians and damaged infrastructure in Yemen.

The union, under this step, decided to freeze the militia's assets and ban its finance, where this decision matches a previous resolution issued by the UN Security Council on Feb. 28, 2022.

The move was welcomed by the Yemeni government and came only days after a similar Arab resolution and a UN Security Council resolution described the group as a terrorist organization.

A press release by Yemen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs cited the Houthis’ terrorist behaviors, including attacks on civilians and infrastructure in Yemen, oppressive policies and atrocities against civilians, sexual abuse against women activists, child recruitment, provoking sectarian-racist based violence, randomly spreading landmines, blocking humanitarian aid, and assaulting commercial ships in the Red Sea.

The ministry called for mounting more pressure on the insurgents to press for peace and revive Yemen's political process.

The black list of the EU was made in 2014 under sanctions targeting the war in Yemen.