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How Huthi-Saudi Negotiations Will Make or Break Yemen
After nearly eight years of war in Yemen, talks are under way between the Huthi rebels and Saudi Arabia.
Yet, by themselves, these discussions cannot bring hostilities to a close.
- ICG
The UN should begin laying the groundwork for negotiations that include all the conflict parties.
What’s new? Yemen’s war has been on uneasy pause since a UN-brokered truce lapsed on 2 October. Whether fighting will resume or not depends mostly on an opaque, Omani-facilitated Saudi-Huthi channel for talks, rather than the main UN-led track.
Why does it matter? A Huthi-Saudi compact is preferable to renewed hostilities. But if it is poorly conceived, too generous to the Huthis or simply infeasible, as…