CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s warring sides Sunday resumed United Nations-backed negotiations over a prisoner swap, the world body said, more than three months after they completed the war’s largest exchange. In October, the warring sides achieved the largest-ever prisoner swap of the war, releasing more than 1,000 detainees. Yemen’s devastating conflict erupted in 2014, when the Huthis seized the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country’s north. Image: A Yemeni detainee is greeted by his relative and friends after his release from a prison controlled by Huthi rebels, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. The International Committee of the Red Cross says Yemen’s Huthi rebels have released 290 detainees rounded up over the years and held in several detention centers across the war-torn country.

Source: Egypt Independent January 24, 2021 13:41 UTC