The UN-backed agreement will see the ICRC facilitate the exchange of hundreds of detainees from both sides.
Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Houthi group have signed a United Nations-backed agreement in Jordan to exchange more than 1,600 detainees, marking the largest prisoner exchange since the country’s civil war began in September 2014.
Under the accord, the Houthis will release 580 prisoners, including seven Saudis and 20 Sudanese, while the government will release 1,100 Houthi prisoners, Houthi official Abdulqader al-Mortada said in a post on social media on Thursday.
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Separately, Yahya Kazman, the deputy head of the government negotiating team, said in a post on X that nearly 1,728 detainees from both sides…
