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Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has announced the completion of separate prisoner swap deals with Saudi-sponsored Yemeni militiamen loyal to former Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi in the country’s southwestern province of Taiz, central province of Marib as well as the western coastal province of Hodeida.
The head of the Houthi-affiliated National Committee for Prisoners' Affairs (NCPA), Abdulqader al-Mortada, said nine members of the Yemeni Army and allied Popular Committees had been released, and that the agreement was through “local mediation.”
Mortada, however, did not provide details about the number of released prisoners in return.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of Hadi back to power and crushing Ansarullah.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
