A bomb hit a university campus in the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday killing two people. Several people were also seriously wounded, the official said, adding that death toll was likely to rise. The event was organized by the Houthi Shiite rebels. There was no immediate claim for Tuesday's bombing but both Al-Qaeda and its rival the Daesh group have carried out past bombings against the Houthis. Meanwhile in Kuwait City, Yemen's warring parties held their first face-to-face meeting in nearly a week on Monday after the government delegation ended a boycott, the UN envoy said. "A joint meeting between the two delegations to the Yemen peace talks has started in the morning," Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on Twitter. The troubled negotiations which began on April 21 broke off on Tuesday when the government delegation suspended its participation accusing Iran-backed rebels who control the capital of failing to keep their word. The government demanded a written pledge from the Houthi Shiite rebels and their allies recognizing an April 2015 UN Security Council resolution calling for their withdrawal from the capital and other territories they have overran since 2014, as well as the legitimacy of President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi. Hadi had agreed to end the latest boycott after mediation by UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Qatari emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, the UN special envoy said on Sunday. Foreign Minister Abdulmalek Al-Mikhlafi said on Twitter Sunday that the government had agreed to give the peace talks a "last chance." "We have fixed all the references. This is a first step on the path for a real peace that leads to implementing Resolution 2216 beginning with withdrawals, surrender of weapons and the restoration of state institutions," he said.
