In photos: Yemenis call for peace, reject war

Through a series of murals that feature peace signs, doves and Yemenis in traditional garb, young people are calling for peace and tolerance and rejecting the country's ongoing conflict.

Al-Mashareq and AFP

2018-08-24

A Yemeni artist paints a graffiti on a wall in Sanaa that shows the peace sign bleeding, in reference to the ongoing war that has plagued the country for the past four years and the failure of negotiations for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. [Mohammed Huwais/AFP]

A Yemeni artist paints an hourglass that shows people falling in the ongoing conflict in the country. [Mohammed Huwais/AFP]

A Yemeni artist paints a pro-peace graffiti on a wall in the capital Sanaa on August 16th, of a man holding a lantern with a peace sign in it. [Mohammed Huwais/AFP]

A graffiti on a wall in Sanaa shows a man and a woman in traditional garb with a dove between them. [Mohammed Huwais/AFP]

A Yemeni artist paints the peace symbol of a dove holding an olive branch on a wall in the capital Sanaa on August 16th. [Mohammed Huwais/AFP]

A graffiti of Yemenis in colourful garb sheltering under a tent adorns a wall in Sanaa as part of several murals calling for peace and tolerance and rejecting the war. [Mohammed Huwais/AFP]

A Yemeni artist paints a graffiti that calls for the end of the war in Yemen by showing a man wounded in an airstrike. [Mohammed Huwais/AFP]

Yemeni artists painted pro-peace graffitis on a wall in Sanaa on August 16th, calling for peace and tolerance and rejecting the ongoing conflict in the country. [Mohammed Huwais/AFP]

With UN-backed peace talks set to resume in Geneva next month, young people gathered in Yemen's Sanaa on August 16th to decorate a city wall with pro-peace graffiti.

Through a series of murals that feature peace signs, doves, colourful handprints, lanterns and Yemenis in traditional garb, they call for peace and tolerance and reject the country's ongoing conflict, which is now entering its fifth year.

The UN has invited Yemen's government and the Iran-backed Houthis (Ansarallah) to Geneva next month for talks, due to open September 6th, on reaching a peaceful solution to the country's civil war.

An earlier round of UN-backed negotiations broke down in 2016.