Yemen Peace Talks in Lull Amid Violence

Local Editor

As both sides accuse each other of committing ceasefire violations, the three-week long negotiations between Yemen’s Hadi regime and Houthi revolutionaries appeared to lead nowhere, said a U.N. envoy.

Earlier this week, the Ansarullah movement reportedly seized an army camp, thus prompting the Hadi regime to suspend peace talks, which eventually resumed on Wednesday under pressure from the international community.

Describing the truce violations as "deeply disturbing", U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that a joint UN-sponsored ceasefire monitoring committee has been set up to investigate the clashes.

Yemen has been in a shambles with over 9,000 people killed and 2.8 million displaced in a bloody conflict since March last year.

The senators in Britain were "dismayed" by British government’s sales of arms to Yemen, notes The Guardian. Supplying weapons in a country hit by one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises not only challenges ethics but also breaches British, European and international law.

Highlighting the hypocrisy of British government, the media outlet said the U.K., on one hand, sends weapons of destruction to Yemen and on the other, provides aid to "pick up the pieces."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team