Houthis Fighters Take Over Yemen Presidential Palace Houthi fighters have taken full control of Yemens presidential palace in the capital Sanaa after a brief clash with the compounds security guards, witnesses and security sources say. The development came a day after the parties in the ongoing conflict in the Arabian Peninsula country said at two separate times they had agreed to a ceasefire. The ceasefires were intended to pave the way for negotiations on Tuesday, still under way, between the opposing parties: the internationally backed President Abd- Rabbu Mansour Hadi and Ansarallah. Guards at the presidential palace housing the main office of Hadi said they handed over the compound to Houthi fighters after a brief clash on Tuesday. Abdul Malik al-Houthi, for years the chief negotiator for Ansarallah, later delivered a speech, reeling off a long list of grievances against the Hadi government. He is the scion of a Zaidi Shia family from northwestern Yemen.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:04:08 +0000