Prisoner swap agreed

Yemen's warring parties have agreed to exchange some 1,000 prisoners, including 19 Saudi soldiers, at UN-sponsored talks as part of trust-building steps aimed at reviving a stalled peace process, sources said on Sunday.

UN envoy Martin Griffiths and an official from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are due to hold a news briefing later on Sunday at the end of a week-long meeting in Switzerland of the committee overseeing a prisoner swap deal first agreed at peace talks in December 2018.

Reuters