UN envoy in rare Yemen visit to push for peace

Grundberg last visited the capital Sanaa, controlled by the Iran-backed Huthis, in May 2023 for meetings with the rebels' leaders in an earlier effort to advance a roadmap for peace. The envoy's current visit "is part of his ongoing efforts to urge for concrete and essential actions... for advancing the peace process", Grundberg's office said in a statement. Yemen has been at war since 2014, when the Huthis forced the internationally recognised government out of Sanaa. The rebels have also seized population centres in the north.