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                    UN: Yemen Peace Talks to Begin Next Week

   by VOA News

   Talks to end more than a year of violence in Yemen will begin December
   15, the U.N envoy overseeing discussions announced Monday.
   Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the exiled government representatives and
   Houthi rebels who overran the capital late last year have committed to
   participate in peace negotiations in Switzerland next week. Officials
   from the General People's Congress who are loyalists of former
   President Ali Abdullah Saleh are also expected at the meeting.
   Internal clashes and an air offensive launched by neighboring Saudi
   Arabia in March have killed at least 2,500 civilians this year,
   according to the World Health Organization.
   Yemen's internationally recognized president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi,
   fled to Riyadh, leaving behind a country crippled by the conflict. The
   World Health Organization reported in October that fighting had reached
   21 of the country's 22 provinces, prompting a health and humanitarian
   crisis that has forced thousands of Yemenis to flee the country.
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