The two sides in Yemen’s conflict say they have agreed to a prisoner exchange.
This comes after talks in Switzerland facilitated by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The head of the Yemeni government delegation said on Monday that about 880 detainees would be exchanged.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group also said it would release 181 detainees, including 15 Saudis and three Sudanese, in exchange for 706 prisoners from the government.
The conflict between the sides has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.
The exchange of about 15,000 conflict-related detainees has been under discussion as a key confidence-building measure under a December 2018 UN-mediated deal known as the Stockholm Agreement.
Under that deal, the sides agreed to release all prisoners, detainees, missing persons, arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared persons, and those under house arrest, held in connection with the conflict, without any exceptions or conditions.
Quadri Adejumo covers World News, Health, Climate & Humanitarian.
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