UN to present new plan for troops' pullback from Yemen's Hodeidah city.

The United Nations will present a new plan for the withdrawal of forces from Yemen's key port city of Hodeida to the government and Huthi insurgents, a UN envoy has said.

The redeployment of forces was agreed in December under a ceasefire agreement reached in Sweden that offered the best hope in years of moving toward an end to the war that has pushed the Arab country to the brink of famine.

'Following constructive discussions with both parties, there is significant progress towards an agreement to implement phase one of the redeployments of the Hodeida agreement,' a statement from Martin Griffiths, the UN envoy for Yemen, said Tuesday.

'Operational details will be presented to the parties in the Redeployment Coordination Committee [RCC] for endorsement shortly,' he added.

The RCC, chaired by Danish General Michael Lollesgaard, was established under the Stockholm agreement to bring the government and the Huthis to the table to work out the details of the ceasefire...