The United Nations envoy has arrived in Yemen in a bid to arrange a ceasefire in the holy month of Ramadan and to allow for deliveries of humanitarian aid.
The visit by Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who arrived on Sunday for talks with the Houthis and their allies, comes amid amid continuing violence, including a deadly attack on a market in northern Yemen, according to a Houthi news agency.
Houthi’s spokesperson Mohammad Abdul Salam has said in a Facebook post that he had met Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Friday in Muscat, Oman’s capital, in a meeting attended by the ambassadors of the European Union and Germany.
It has been reported that Arab forces had demanded guarantees that the Houthis and allied army units would not use any pause during Ramadan to keep advancing on areas held by forces allied or loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in south and eastern Yemen.
