The UN envoy for Yemen briefly visited the flashpoint city of al-Hodeidah Tuesday (January 29th), an official said, the diplomat's first trip there since warring parties agreed to a ceasefire last month.
Martin Griffiths was in the Red Sea port city "for a few hours" to oversee the truce deal's implementation and "follow up on preparations" for a new monitoring mission, the UN official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Yemen's government and the Iran-backed Houthis (Ansarallah) reached a deal over al-Hodeidah at peace talks brokered by Griffiths in Sweden last month.
The agreement stipulates a full ceasefire, followed by the withdrawal of rival forces from the city -- two clauses that have yet to be fulfilled.
The UN Security Council this month unanimously adopted Resolution 2452, which calls for the deployment of up to 75 monitors to oversee the fragile ceasefire and pullback of forces from al-Hodeidah.
