A French woman working for an international organisation in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, has been kidnapped, the French foreign ministry says, reports the BBC.
Security sources say gunmen seized the woman and her Yemeni driver on Tuesday morning as she was going to work.
The French foreign ministry, which closed its embassy in Sanaa in February, said it was trying to locate and free the woman.
It gave no further details, but urged French citizens to leave the country.
Yemen is a base for al-Qaeda-affiliated militants and foreigners have been targets of kidnappings in the past.
The security situation in the country sharply deteriorated after President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi resigned in January following a takeover by a Shia militia group, the Houthis.