Tribal mediators succeeded yesterday in brokering a ceasefire between al-Houthi rebels and a tribe (al Aziz) backed by the government after days of heavy fighting in the north killed more than 60 people.

Mohammed Abdulsalam, a al-Houthi spokesman, said the ceasefire was reached after the mediation of tribal chieftains.

“The ceasefire is stable and the mediation committee is in the region, but we need a mediator who has the ability to exercise pressure and monitor the ceasefire on the ground,” Mr Abdulsalam said. He did not have details on the agreement.

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Iran president accuses americans to attack “once or two countries” in Middle East friends of Tehran regime.
And russian president Medvedev to have become “spokesman” of Usa strategy. “But iranian nation will break their propaganda”.

Ahmadinejad attacks Usa and Russia, first accused to prepare war against “one or two countries of Middle East”, the second to have become accomplice. Even though iranian president, quoted by Mehr agency, doesn’t talk of a direct attack to his country, it would be of one “scenario of war against Iran”, a “copycat” prepared by americans that provides to “attack one or two countries in Middle East friends of Iran with help of Sionists to weaken the determination of iranian nation.

But iranian nation - affirmed Ahmadinejad - will shatter hundreds of staged propaganda like this”.

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Local sources from Amran governorate revealed that fighting between Houthi rebels and government-backed tribes over the past four days have left at least 49 people dead. However, the rebels’ spokesman, Mohammed Abdul Salam, told local media that 20 of al-Houthi affiliates were killed by the army and not by tribesmen.

Confrontations were taking place in Al-Amsheyah, in the northern Amran governorate, where the tribe of MP Sheikh Sagheer Aziz is allegedly besieged by the al-Houthi affiliates.

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Qatari mediators brokered an agreement between the Djiboutian and the Eritrean governments after months of shuttle diplomacy. Qatar has deployed its forces on the border between the two countries starting late Tuesday night; and by Wednesday morning, the forces had been deployed on the entire disputed areas between the two countries. The number of the Qatari forces is estimated to be several hundred soldiers

Reached by telephone in Djibouti, Mr. Mohammed Taha Tewekel, the director of Gulf News Center confirmed the news. Though Djibouti hosts American and French forces, it is not known whether they had any role in the deployment.

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Gunmen attacked at least six checkpoints in the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing seven Iraqi troops and policemen, while bombs planted at three others injured several more, an Interior Ministry source said, according to Reuters.

In separate incidents, a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed two people in south Baghdad while bombs outside policemen’s homes in the western province of Anbar and a suicide car bomb in the northern city of Mosul killed another six.

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