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Yemen war: Firing in Hudaydah raises fears for new truce
Fighting has resumed on the fringes of Yemen's port city of Hudaydah, according to residents, raising fears for a newly agreed truce.
The ceasefire for the port was only agreed between the government and rebels at talks in Sweden on Thursday.
It is hoped Hudaydah, occupied by Houthi rebels, can be used to bring in supplies for starving millions.
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Residents speaking to international news agencies said they heard shell and gunfire in an eastern district of Hudaydah.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46573156
The ceasefire for the port was only agreed between the government and rebels at talks in Sweden on Thursday.
It is hoped Hudaydah, occupied by Houthi rebels, can be used to bring in supplies for starving millions.
...
Residents speaking to international news agencies said they heard shell and gunfire in an eastern district of Hudaydah.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46573156
Earlier:
UN Yemen mission to rush to Hodeidah to oversee ceasefire
A small-scale UN monitoring mission will rush to the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah next week to oversee a ceasefire, the UN special envoy for Yemen has told diplomats in New York.
A fragile truce was secured after week-long negotiations in Sweden, the first Yemen peace talks since 2016.
The special envoy, Martin Griffiths, hopes a UN security resolution, drafted by the UK, will endorse the agreements reached in Stockholm including the need for a UN body to supervise the port’s administration and mutual troop withdrawals.
Speaking by a video link to the security council in New York, Griffiths said: “A robust and competent monitoring regime is not just essential, it is also urgently needed and both parties have told us they would very much welcome it and indeed depend on it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/14/yemen-ceasefire-hope-gives-way-to-concerns-about-implementation
A small-scale UN monitoring mission will rush to the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah next week to oversee a ceasefire, the UN special envoy for Yemen has told diplomats in New York.
A fragile truce was secured after week-long negotiations in Sweden, the first Yemen peace talks since 2016.
The special envoy, Martin Griffiths, hopes a UN security resolution, drafted by the UK, will endorse the agreements reached in Stockholm including the need for a UN body to supervise the port’s administration and mutual troop withdrawals.
Speaking by a video link to the security council in New York, Griffiths said: “A robust and competent monitoring regime is not just essential, it is also urgently needed and both parties have told us they would very much welcome it and indeed depend on it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/14/yemen-ceasefire-hope-gives-way-to-concerns-about-implementation
Too late.