Delegates fly in for Yemen peace talks

Delegations from both sides of Yemen’s civil war have arrived in Sweden for peace talks, with the United Nations hoping they can agree on a truce to allow desperately needed food aid into the strategic port of Hodeidah. A 12-member team from Yemen’s Saudi-backed government, headed by foreign minister Khaled al-Yamani, left Riyadh early yesterday, a day after rebel delegates landed in Stockholm accompanied by the UN peace envoy. Martin Griffiths, the British UN envoy to Yemen, said it was an encouraging sign that both sides had turned up.