In the Yemeni port city of Houdaida it’s troops on Friday, despite the agreed ceasefire between the government and rebels are Fighting. In the South of the city artillery was to listen to the fire, said a resident to the AFP news Agency. Other residents told of repeated gun battles in the East Houdaidas.
Both sides had agreed on Thursday in the case of the UN-mediated talks in Sweden, a fire break, which occurred in the night to Friday. In the conclusion of Yemen talks in the presence of the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres agreed on a ceasefire should apply to Houdaida and the local port through which the bulk of humanitarian assistance in Yemen.
The agreement provides for a mutual shift of Forces, had the UN said Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday at the venue in Rimbo, North of the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Thus, should government units and rebel fighters from the city and the port. In addition, a fire break in the entire province.
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The port of Houdaida is Central to the care of the desperately poor country. Around 80 percent of the desperately needed aid shipments are handled via the contested port.
The Yemen-negotiations went this Thursday after a week. Guterres, according to the rebels and the government agreed to the talks at the end of January to continue.
The mediation of the UN special envoy, Martin Griffith negotiations, the first meeting of the parties to the conflict since 2016. Several attempts to end the war through diplomatic channels, have already failed.
Saudi Arabia against Iran
In the Yemen. the poor house of the Arab world, battling Houthi rebels for more than four years against the supporters of the government. Their troops are supported by one of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition air attacks. The Sunni neighboring country of Saudi Arabia sees in the rebels, a close ally of his arch-enemy, Shiite Iran.
million children in Yemen are malnourished life-threatening.Photo: Essa Ahmed / AFP
The war and a dire economic crisis with a massive devaluation of the currency and high unemployment, to set the Yemenis difficult. Thousands came through the fighting claimed the lives of millions of people suffer from Hunger and are in danger of diseases. Children are often fed acute. In the past three and a half years of starvation, according to estimates by Save the Children to 85,000 girls and boys. The Situation in Yemen is considered the world’s most devastating humanitarian crisis. (with Reuters, AFP)