Yemen

SANAA, Mar 28 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s Houthi militia, announced last night that, they are ready to swap 823 prisoners of the Saudi-led coalition forces for 1,400 Houthi militants.

The prisoner exchange agreement was reached on Mar 21, under the auspices of the United Nations (UN), Abdulkadir al-Murtada, head of the Houthi prisoner committee, was quoted by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV as saying.

SANAA, Mar 27 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels, yesterday, announced a three-day unilateral cease-fire with the Saudi-led coalition, voicing their commitment to a permanent truce, if the coalition ends airstrikes and withdraws forces.

March 26 (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on Saturday set the Iran-aligned group Houthis a three-hour deadline to withdraw weapons from the airport of Sanaa and from two ports on the Red Sea, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV reported.

Retaining weapons in the Yemeni capital's airport and the ports of Hodeidah and Saleef would "end their status" as safe regions not to be targeted by coalition air strikes, it said, without saying exactly at what time the deadline would expire.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen unleashed a barrage of airstrikes on the capital and a strategic Red Sea city, officials said Saturday. At least eight people were killed.

The overnight airstrikes on Sanaa and Hodeida — both held by the Houthis — came a day after the rebels attacked an oil depot in the Saudi city of Jiddah, their highest-profile assault yet on the kingdom.

SANAA, March 25 (Reuters) - Khaled Rmeishi, 16, has spent half his life watching Yemen, and his hopes for the future, collapse under a war that has pushed millions in the long-impoverished Arabian peninsula country deeper into poverty and hunger.

Rmeishi, who is in the ninth grade, helps his family by working at his father's car repair garage in the capital Sanaa and hopes later to have a trade job as a mechanic, plumber or electrician.

20 March 2022; MEMO: US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking and Hollywood actress and Special Envoy for the UNHCR Angelina Jolie agreed to work to ease the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, Anadolu Agency reported.

"The two Special Envoys agreed to work together to ease the humanitarian crisis & help end the #Yemen conflict," said a Twitter post on The US State Department – Near Eastern Affairs account.

ADEN, Mar 19 (NNN-YPA) – A senior commander of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda branch was killed, in armed confrontation yesterday, with the Houthi militia for seizing key areas in the country’s oil-rich province of Marib, a military official said.

“Ferocious fighting erupted between the Houthi rebels and some fighters belonging to the al-Qaeda group, in the southern parts of Marib, during the past several hours,” the local military source said, on condition of anonymity.

17 March 2022; MEMO: A former Yemeni minister yesterday warned of a "new plot led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to strike the Republic of Yemen and legitimise the division of the country."

15 March 2022; MEMO: A Houthi official said, on Tuesday, that Saudi Arabia cannot be a mediator in the Yemen war, remarking on a Reuters report of a Gulf Arab initiative to hold consultations among Yemeni parties in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with Reuters reporting this, as well.

Mohamed Ali Al-Houthi, head of the Houthi Supreme Revolutionary Committee, said, "Riyadh is a party in the war not a mediator."

16 March 2022; MEMO: After more than seven years of war, Yemen is becoming a "chronic emergency" and "there are grave risks in chronic emergencies, namely inertia and fatigue," a senior UN official said yesterday.