Yemen's Houthi movement says it has reached a UN-backed prisoner exchange agreement with the Saudi-led coalition and allied militants ahead of the upcoming peace talks in Sweden.

The chief negotiator for the Houthi Ansarullah movement says the next round of Yemen peace talks are meaningless amid incessant Saudi-led attacks.

The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement says the increase in the number of Saudi-led airstrikes on Hudaydah will destroy UN peace efforts.

Yemeni army soldiers and their allies have intercepted and shot down a Saudi-led combat drone over the skies in the country’s western province of Hudaydah.

Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been defending the nation against a Saudi Arabian-led war, says it is halting its counterstrikes as a goodwill measure to speed up “peace” process.

The United Nations’ envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths has visited Yemen’s capital Sana’a.

Saudi Arabia intensifies its invasion of Yemen as the United Nations special envoy for the violence-scarred country visits the capital Sana’a in an attempt to cobble together a conflict resolution mechanism.

The UN special envoy to Yemen says warring sides in the most impoverished Arab nation will meet in Geneva next month to discuss a transitional governance deal.

The UN health agency raises alarm at the “critical” conditions of civilians in Yemen’s Hudaydah, which has been under attack by Saudi-led forces over the past weeks.

UN envoy to Yemen hopes peaces talks could begin between warring sides of the country next month.