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Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionaries and the exiled Hadi government agreed to begin a cease-fire for a week or two before their next round of negotiations scheduled for April, Yemeni officials said Sunday.
Relatively, UN special envoy on Yemen Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmed arrived in the capital of Sana’a to discuss preparations for a new round of inter-Yemeni negotiations on Saturday.
Ould Sheikh Ahmed said earlier that the date of a new round should be set before the end of March. Last time the parties tried to initiate a peace process in December in Geneva.
Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict since late March 2015, when the Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes against Ansarullah revolutionaries and civilians.
Previous attempts to implement a cease-fire in Yemen have failed to take hold on the ground, with each side accusing the other of immediately violating the terms. However, the first round of talks was held in Switzerland in December, but talks have never been resumed later.
Meanwhile, the Arab world’s poorest country has been plagued by fighting which has killed more than 6,200 people over the past year, according to the World Health Organization numbers. The United Nations, for its part, has warned of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
