The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement will announce at midnight it is halting military operations nationwide to support a UN ceasefire initiative.
The suspension in fighting, expected to go into effect on Thursday at noon, was agreed in part to avoid a coronavirus outbreak in Yemen, where no cases have yet been reported.
It was unclear if the Houthi movement would follow the coalition's decision. Mohammed Abdulsalam, spokesman of the Houthi movement, said his group has sent to the United Nations a comprehensive vision which includes an end to the war and to "the blockade" imposed on Yemen. "(Our proposal) will lay the foundations for a political dialogue and a transitional period," Abdulsalam said in a