Warring parties agree prisoner swap

The warring parties in Yemen are reported to have agreed to carry out a major prisoner swap within 20 days. The deal between the government and the Houthi rebel movement is being seen as a breakthrough in weeks of peace talks that have achieved little until now. Sources from both sides at the talks in […]

The warring parties in Yemen are reported to have agreed to carry out a major prisoner swap within 20 days.
The deal between the government and the Houthi rebel movement is being seen as a breakthrough in weeks of peace talks that have achieved little until now.
Sources from both sides at the talks in Kuwait told the AFP news agency that they would each hand over half of the prisoners they were holding.
The rebel source said that hundreds of detainees would be involved.
More than 6,200 people have been killed and 2.5 million others displaced since the conflict escalated in March 2015, when a Saudi-led multinational coalition launched a military campaign to defeat the rebels and allied security forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and drive them from the capital, Sanaa.