Mediation efforts secures truce in North Yemen

A tribal mediation secured a truce between the Shiite Houthi group and Islamists from Islah Party after a brief fighting that broke out today at noon in the north province of Amran.

One man was killed and one kidnapped from the Islamist Islah Party in a fighting that broke out on Friday with their rival Shiite Houthi group in north Yemen .

Citing “Sectarian war”, a security source in the capital Sana’a said that the fighting took place at noon today in the Raidah area, some 25 km north of the Amran province towards Sa’ada, the main Houthi’s stronghold.

"The fighting now is going on and causalities is likely to increase," he said.

Sheikh Mohammed Nagi al-Shayef and other tribal sheikhs reached a 24-hour truce after today fighting left one person from Islah party killed, another injured and one kidnapped, a security officer said.

The rivalry between the Shiite Houthis and Islamists form Islah Party has intensified since 2011 over territorial expansion in the northern areas of Yemen.

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