Yeman and saudi on negotiation of peace
Yemeni protesters hold a placard bearing a portrait of president Ali Abdullah Saleh during a demonstration against the Saudi-led coalition, commemorating one year of the alliance’s military campaign against insurgents on March 26, 2016 next to the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
The protest so called for by the General People’s Congress, the party of rebel-allied former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who appeared briefly at the rally, an AFP
The military intervention that began on March 26 last year has yet to deal a decisive blow to the Iran-backed rebels, who continue to control the capital and large parts of the country.
Shiite rebels who manipulate the Yemeni capital Sanaa have released nine Saudis in exchange for 109 Yemenis, the Saudi-led coalition fighting them said Monday, ahead of planned peace talks next month.
“Nine Saudi prisoners have been recovered and 109 Yemenis who were arrested in the military operations zone” near the border have been handed over.
The prisoner swap is the latest confidence-building measure in the lead-up to a planned ceasefire and peace talk next month.
The coalition statement did not specify whether the prisoners exchanged were combatants or civilians.
The protest so called for by the General People’s Congress, the party of rebel-allied former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who appeared briefly at the rally, an AFP
The military intervention that began on March 26 last year has yet to deal a decisive blow to the Iran-backed rebels, who continue to control the capital and large parts of the country.
Shiite rebels who manipulate the Yemeni capital Sanaa have released nine Saudis in exchange for 109 Yemenis, the Saudi-led coalition fighting them said Monday, ahead of planned peace talks next month.
“Nine Saudi prisoners have been recovered and 109 Yemenis who were arrested in the military operations zone” near the border have been handed over.
The prisoner swap is the latest confidence-building measure in the lead-up to a planned ceasefire and peace talk next month.
The coalition statement did not specify whether the prisoners exchanged were combatants or civilians.
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