Pro-Hadi Yemeni military chief survives bomb blast unscathed in central Yemen

The military chief for Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has had a narrow escape, when a convoy he was travelling in was struck by a landmine explosion in the country’s central province of Ma’rib.

An unnamed Yemeni military source told AFP that General Mohammed Ali al-Maqdishi was visiting one of the main frontlines in Ma’rib, located 173 kilometers to the northeast of Yemen's capital Sana'a, on Wednesday when the blast took place.

The source added that Maqdishi was unhurt, but eight of his bodyguards were killed.

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Later in the day, Saudi-led fighter jets pounded residential neighborhoods in the Majzar district of the same Yemeni province. There were, however, no immediate reports about possible casualties and the extent of damage caused.

Saudi-paid militiamen and Hadi loyalists also launched a barrage of mortar shells at Mughari village in the Hays district of Yemen’s western coastal province of Hudaydah. There were no immediate reports of casualties and damage available though.

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Meanwhile, Abdul-Qader al-Murtaza, chairman of the Houthi-run Committee for Prisoners' Affairs, said on Wednesday that Yemen's warring parties had submitted lists with a total of 1,420 people they believe to be detained to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

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Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and Saudi-sponsored militiamen have exchanged dozens of prisoners in the Yemeni governorate of Ta’izz.

Murtaza added that the lists include up to 900 Yemenis believed to be detained in prisons run by the Saudi-led military coalition waging a war on Yemen. It is though that the remaining 520 prisoners are Saudi and Sudanese soldiers in addition to Hadi loyalists, who are being held in Houthis’ detention camps.

On Sunday, the UN mission in Yemen said in a statement that warring sides in the country had decided to “immediately begin with exchanging the lists for the upcoming release” of prisoners, calling it the “first official large-scale” exchange of its kind since the beginning of the long-running conflict.

“Today the parties showed us that even with the growing challenges on the ground, the confidence they have been building can still yield positive results,” UN envoy Martin Griffiths said.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of Hadi back to power and crushing the Ansarullah movement.

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The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past nearly five years.

The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.

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