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UN special envoy Martin Griffiths had been planning another peace conference later this month; that might still go ahead but could be delayed until December or later.

The UK announced Riyadh had agreed to the evacuation of wounded Houthis for treatment in Oman – a significant move as the peace talks planned for September were cancelled after just such an evacuation

United Nations experts have urged Oman to release human rights defender Said Ali Said Jadad, who has been advocating for democratic reforms.

“This is not the first time that I have been informed about acts of reprisals against Mr Jadad following my official visit to Oman in September 2014,” special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful

The UN is still hoping, it seems, that its special envoy Jamal Benomar will find a way to make progress in stalled talks among political parties in Yemen.

;best hope to overcome the current crisis”.

The UAE deal with Dassault has also been in the offing for years (GSN 908/7, 877/7, 855/8).

France will be hoping that the deal leads to further contracts in the region.

GSN OnlineIssue 868 - 18 December 2009 Southern Movement fragments in Yemen’s other conflict Yemen’s little-noticed southern unrest has finally gained some serious recognition with the 15 December publication

of a Human Rights Watch report into the brutal reaction of state security services to the mostly peaceful southern protests.

Amid renewed tensions between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, and with diminishing prospects for peace, the Houthi authorities may see new opportunities to extract more economic and military aid from their

That came as Supreme Political Council (SPC) member Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi expressed frustration with Saudi Arabia’s negotiators and announced that talks in Oman had reached an impasse.

Campaign Against Arms Trade spokesman Andrew Smith called it a “shameful deal… It will mean even greater destruction for the people of Yemen.

” Previously, the UK government has warned that parliamentary criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record and its conduct in Yemen might damage the prospects for large defence deals.

To stifle this, the government has attempted to paint the Southern Movement as a facade for Al-Qaeda – helped by Al-Fadhli’s past history of dealings with Osama Bin Laden (GSN 852/1) &ndash

Southern confrontation Well aware that any link to jihadist Islamism would destroy hopes of gaining international sympathy, the self-determination campaign’s leaders are resolutely sticking to peaceful

With peace efforts in Yemen going nowhere, there have been hints that the Houthis are trying to encourage a fresh effort at third-party mediation with Saudi Arabia.

That followed comments by Houthi Supreme Political Council president Mahdi Al-Mashat who said on 3 June that Sanaa was open to a new round of peace talks.

Yemen's Houthi rebels and representatives of the internationally-recognised Political Leadership Council (PLC) government reached an agreement just before the start of Ramadan on a new prisoner exchange

The meetings in Geneva, co-ordinated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and United Nations special envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg, led to the first prisoner exchange since 2022 (GSN

Frenchman Alain Goma was released by his Houthi captors on 16 October and flown to Oman – the latest in a string of hostages who have been handed over to Muscat during the course of the Yemen war

As in previous cases, the Oman authorities appear to have played a critical role, liaising with the Houthi administration in Sanaa to secure Goma’s freedom.

A number of agreements, memoranda of understanding and executive programmes were signed in Kuwait, including air transport, science and technology deals.

Al-Hakim said he hoped public and private sector Kuwaiti investors would take advantage of Iraq’s “highly promising investment opportunities”.

Foreign secretary Philip Hammond arrived in Saudi Arabia on 29 May at the start of a tour of Gulf states also taking in Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE and Oman, intended to press for more concerted action on

Syria and Yemen.

He was in Riyadh on 26 September for talks with Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) President Rashad Al-Alimi and Saudi officials and in Muscat the following day for discussions with Oman’s foreign

The Houthi response also came with a number of threats against oil companies working in Yemen.

French naval forces seized more than 3,000 assault rifles, 578,000 rounds of ammunition and 23 advanced anti-tank guided missiles in the Gulf of Oman on 15 January.

MTN transferred its controlling interest in the asset to minority partner Oman’s Zubair Corporation in 2021.