Warring parties resume peace talks in Kuwait

Yemen’s warring parties have resumed face-to-face peace talks three days after a walkout by the government delegation, according to the United Nations. It is only the second round of face-to-face talks in the hard-won negotiations to end a conflict that has killed more than 6,400 people and forced 2.8 million from their homes since March […]

Yemen’s warring parties have resumed face-to-face peace talks three days after a walkout by the government delegation, according to the United Nations.
It is only the second round of face-to-face talks in the hard-won negotiations to end a conflict that has killed more than 6,400 people and forced 2.8 million from their homes since March last year. “The joint work session has started to follow up with the agreed agenda,” Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, UN Special Envoy for Yemen, said on Twitter on Wednesday. The negotiations, which began on April 21, broke up on Sunday after the government delegation quit in protest at the apparent surrender of one of the few loyalist bases in the northern mountains to Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the two sides had agreed that a monitoring committee supervising a ceasefire would launch a fact-finding mission into the takeover of the al-Amaliqa base in Amran province.