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  • 11 years ago
Yemen Houthi have announced a new ceasefire after fighting raged in the capital for most of Monday. The fighting began early on Monday with the Houthi rebels announcing an earlier temporary ceasefire and bringing a short lull in the clashes. Fighting continued later in the streets on Sanaa, the Yemen capital, after the rebel fighters attempted to take-over the presidential palace. The President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi was forced to flee his palace soon after, with his convoy coming under attack by the fighters before the a take-over of the state news agency and broadcaster. The palace has since been surrounded with fighting outside the presidential capital but clashes seized with the ceasefire reached with the Predisent Hadi's negotiation team and the Houthis. Al Jazeera's Faiz Jameel explains the day's developments.

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