More than 1,000 prisoners of war to be swapped in Yemen

The World

Yemen’s warring sides agreed on Sunday to exchange more than 1,000 prisoners of war, marking the first phase of a prisoner-release plan reached earlier this year. Yara Khawaja, spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen, tells host Marco Werman how the prisoner swap will be managed.

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