After months of debating and political negotiating NDC representatives assigned to the Sa'ada dossier have finally reach a consensus which should once and for all resolve the second thorniest issue of the National Dialogue.
Following almost a decade of recriminations and a military standoff against the central government, the Houthis (a Shiite rebel group which integrated back into mainstream politics in 2012 following President Ali Abdullah Saleh's resignation from power under the name Ansar Allah) are looking to leave behind their warring ways to fully embrace national unity as integrant and active members of Yemen's political scene.
NDC representatives have already rolled out their 33-points solution plan for Sa'ada, a significant political victory given the difficulties the team had to come up against.
The reconciliation plan guarantees that the people of Sa'ada's right to practice and profess their faith: Shiite Islam, will be not only respected but protected under the law, a point Houthis leaders have been keen to push on, following a decade of alleged sectarian discrimination.
Moreover, Houthis representatives have asked that the central government not only release all political prisoners immediately and unconditionally but that they all be duly compensated. Sa'ada also required that Sana'a compensate its people, whom many were wounded and killed during all six wars.
While the central government was looking to arrange a secure a complete and irrevocable disarmament in Sa'ada (the former rebel group is believed to have accumulate an impressive military arsenal throughout its many encounters with the Yemeni armed forces), NDC representatives only guaranteed that should there be indeed any weapon they would only be handed over to Yemen's next government.