Yemen is in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The war that has killed more than 112,000 people and wrecked the country’s roads, hospitals, water and electricity networks, as well as other infrastructure.
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. The talks in the Jordanian capital Amman between representatives of the internationally recognized government and the Houthi rebels, came less than a week after the U.S. designation of the Iranian-backed rebels as a terrorist group went into effect. The U.N.’s special envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, urged the gathering in Amman to prioritize « the immediate and unconditional release of all sick, wounded, elderly and children detainees as well as all arbitrarily detained civilians, including women.
