SANAA, Jan 7 (NNN-SABA) – UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, yesterday met with Yemeni President, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
They discussed a UN-brokered plan to push forward peace in Yemen.
Griffiths would be flying to Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, in the coming days, for meetings with Hadi’s government.
The UN envoy recently proposed an agreement between the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels to enable resumption of political talks to end the war.
Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014, when the Houthis seized control of several northern provinces and forced the internationally-recognised government of Hadi out of the capital, Sanaa.
The six-year-old war has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced four million and pushed Yemen to the brink of starvation.– NNN-SABA
