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Yemen Peace Talks to Resume Soon

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According to officials in Oman, peace talks over Yemen will resume this month. The talks are reportedly going to be focused around a plan presented by the UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmed and should be followed by a unity government towards the end of the year.

The optimistic projections come on the heels of a reported deal between the warring parties hammered out by the US Secretary of State John Kerry a day earlier.

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has already agreed to the ceasefire, expressing its readiness to join the national unity government. According to a member of the Ansarullah political council, Mohammad Al Bukhaiti, Saudi Arabia has also agreed to end its military campaign although there has been no official confirmation from Riyadh.

However, six previous attempts to clinch a ceasefire in Yemen have foundered, including a three-day October truce that fell apart as soon as it went into force to allow aid deliveries to millions homeless and hungry.

The Saudi-led offensive, which was launched in March 2015, has killed over 10,000 people through the use of deliberate and indiscriminate strikes against civilian infrastructure.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team