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The resigned Yemeni regime on Wednesday proposed a prisoner exchange for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with the Houthi revolutionaries with whom its forces have been at war since 2015.
The interior ministry in Riyadh, where Yemen's regime has been based for the past three years since the revolutionaries captured Sana’a, said in a statement that the offer was made by Information Minister Moammer al-Iryani and Human Rights Minister Mohammed Askar.
It came on the eve of the start of Ramadan.
The ministers called for Red Cross and Red Crescent mediation for all prisoners to return to their homes for the holy month, including 14 Yemeni journalists held by the Houthis and an unspecified number of foreign detainees.
Tribal mediation has in the past led to the release of hundreds of prisoners by the warring parties. The number of those still detained is unknown.
Saudi Arabia launched an Arab military intervention in Yemen in March 2015, aimed at rolling back the Houthis and forcefully restoring the resigned regime to power.
The conflict has left nearly 10,000 people dead, tens of thousands wounded, and millions on the brink of famine in what the United Nations has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
