A major exchange of prisoners from Yemen’s brutal civil war has began with the first plane departing rebel-held Sanaa for government-controlled Aden, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. “The first flight from Sanaa has left,” ICRC media adviser Jessica Moussan told AFP news agency on Friday, signalling the start of a three-day operation that will see nearly 900 prisonersr eleased.

 

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