ADEN, Apr 27 (NNN-SABA) – Forces loyal to the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebel group, exchanged a new batch of 21 prisoners, in the country’s turbulent province of Marib yesterday, a military official, said.
The new prisoner swap deal came, through a mediation by local tribal chiefs, “representing the two-warring sides in Marib and other major cities,” the local military official said, on condition of anonymity.
Yemen’s local tribal mediators have more than once succeeded in brokering prisoner exchanges between government forces and the Houthis, in different areas of the war-torn Arab country.
Yemen has been mired in a civil war since the late 2014, when the Houthi rebels seized control of several northern provinces and forced the Saudi-backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, out of the capital Sanaa.– NNN-SABA
