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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has stated that over three million people, the majority of which are women and children, have been made homeless as a result of ongoing fighting in Yemen's civil war that has raged since 2015.
"Over 3 million people in Yemen have been made homeless by war. 83 per cent of them are women and children," the ICRC said on Twitter on Saturday evening.
Yemen has been locked in a conflict between the government forces led by the Houthi Ansarullah movement, forces loyal to former Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and forces loyal to the Southern Transitional Council (STC) who were initially allied with Hadi loyalists, but clashed in the port city of Aden in August.
In December 2018, for the first time in several years, Yemen's opposing parties came face-to-face in Stockholm for a meeting organized by the United Nations. They managed to reach several relevant agreements, in particular, to implement a ceasefire and exchange prisoners.
The United Nations has also established a mission to support the implementation of the peace agreement and establish humanitarian corridors, although the conflict continues to rage on in the Middle Eastern country.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
