DUBAI,
United Arab Emirates— The
UN on Friday urged Yemen’s warring parties to exercise “restraint” after they
traded accusations of violations of a UN-brokered ceasefire.
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“I am following very closely the latest
developments in #Marib and urge all parties to show restraint and their
continued commitment to the truce as promised to Yemenis,” tweeted Hans
Grundberg, the UN special envoy for Yemen.
A Yemeni military source told AFP that
loyalist forces had “repelled a Houthi (rebel) attack” in southern Marib, the
government’s last stronghold in the north of the country.
“The Houthis are taking advantage of the
ceasefire to strengthen their military presence” around the strategic city,
said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity.
On Tuesday, the government accused the
Iran-backed rebels of endangering the truce with “military deployments, the
mobilization of troops and vehicles, and artillery fire and drone attacks”.
For their part, the Houthis said Friday on
rebel-run Al-Masirah television that they had “repelled an advance” by loyalist
forces.
The government has been locked in conflict
with the Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa and most of the north, despite
a Saudi-led military intervention launched in 2015.
A fragile truce since last Saturday — the
first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan — has largely held, offering a
glimmer of hope in the conflict which has triggered what the UN calls the
world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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