Local Editor
Dozens of people at al-Zuhra district in Hodeida province on Wednesday staged a protest to denounce the continuation of the Saudi-led coalition crimes against civilians in Yemen.
The participants condemned the silence of the international community. They declared their full mandate to the national negotiating delegation le by the Houthi Ansarullah movement in Sweden.
The U.N. is seeking agreement on a ceasefire in Hodeida as well as other confidence-building measures such as re-opening Sana’a airport during the talks, which have already announced agreement on a prisoner swap.
Prospects for the peace talks have risen as Western nations, some of which supply arms and intelligence to the Sunni Muslim coalition, press for an end to the war that has killed tens of thousands of people and left more than 8 million facing famine.
The conflict, seen widely in the region as a proxy war between Riyadh and Tehran, has come under increased scrutiny after the Oct. 2 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom's Istanbul consulate that drew global condemnation.
The alliance intervened in the civil war in 2015 to forcefully bring back to power former Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi but has faced military stalemate since seizing the southern port city of Aden the same year.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
