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The UN envoy to Yemen and fugitive President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi met Thursday in the southern city of Aden to discuss a new bid to end the country’s conflict, a regime official said.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who flew in from Riyadh, held several hours of talks with Hadi in Aden for the first time.
The Mauritanian official said the aim of his mission was to "return to dialogue and a peaceful solution".
Hadi, who has been based mostly in Riyadh since the conflict broke out, flew to Aden last Saturday.
Late last month, Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he has been preparing "for a new round" of peace talks, after a previous round held in Kuwait collapsed in August.
More than 11,000 people have been killed and nearly 37,000 wounded since the Saudi-led military coalition launched airstrikes against Yemen in March 2015 to support Hadi.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
