A Truce In Yemen

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Yemen cease-fire, which took effect last week, is the first serious truce between the country's warring parties in six years. The factions in Yemen agreed to a two-month truce proposed by the United Nations. And on Thursday, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Yemen’s exiled president, said he would transfer power to an eight-member presidential council, suggesting progress in ending the war. All of this comes on the heels of a new Yemen War Powers Resolution — announced by Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. — to end U.S. involvement in the war. Hassan El-Tayyab, the Friends Committee on National Legislation’s legislative director for Middle East policy, joins Ryan Grim to discuss the cease-fire, efforts to end the war in Yemen, factors at play, and the likelihood of finally seeing an end to the war and humanitarian crisis in the country.

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0:00.0	Last week the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen agreed to a two-month ceasefire
0:10.1	with the Houthis.
0:11.1	It's the most significant breakthrough in seven years of war.
0:14.7	A two-month truce has been agreed by warring parties in the country.
0:18.6	It's the first nationwide truce agreed since 2016 in a war which has killed nearly 400,000
0:24.9	people.
0:25.9	This truce must be the first step to ending Yemen's devastating war.
0:33.3	Hasan Al-Tayab has been lobbying Congress to end it for years.
0:37.9	Hasan joins us now.
0:41.0	Hasan Al-Tayab, welcome to deconstructed.
0:43.4	Thanks for having me on.
0:45.0	And so Hasan is the legislative director for Middle East affairs for the Friends Committee
0:51.2	on National Legislation that I get that right?
0:54.7	That's right.
0:55.7	All right, nothing to it.
0:57.5	Which is a kind of Quaker anti-war organization that has been working on the Yemen War since
1:03.7	the Yemen war has existed.
1:06.5	So you and I ran into each other at an event in Washington on April 1st.
1:13.8	You came up to me and said what incredible news about the ceasefire in Yemen.
1:19.6	I had been offline for the last hour or two.
1:23.4	I thought you were pulling the cruelest April Fool's joke that had ever been levelled.
1:29.0	But it turns out that no.
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