Yemen’s warring parties renew two-month truce: UN
Yemen's warring parties have agreed to renew a two-month truce, the United Nations said yesterday, in an 11th-hour move on the day it was set to expire.
Aid agencies and Western governments had urged the Yemeni government and Huthi rebels to extend the truce, which went into effect in April and significantly reduced the intensity of fighting in a conflict the UN says has triggered the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
"I would like to announce that the parties to the conflict have agreed to the United Nations' proposal to renew the current truce in Yemen for two additional months," the UN special envoy on Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said in a statement.
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