Coalition sends more troops to Yemeni city!

• Houthi rebels have for the past 10 days been stationing fighters on rooftops of buildings in Hodeida city.

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen has sent more than 10,000 new troops towards a vital rebel-held port city ahead of a new assault, Yemeni government officials said on Tuesday.

The pro-government coalition deployed the reinforcements to the Red Sea coast ahead of a new offensive on Hodeida "within days", a military official said. He said they would also "secure areas liberated" from the Iran-linked Houthi rebels, and that forces from Sudan, part of the coalition, had moved in to "secure" areas around the city.

Houthi rebels have for the past 10 days been stationing fighters on rooftops of buildings in Hodeida city, government military officials said.

The adjacent port is the entry point for more than 70 per cent of imports to the impoverished country, which is teetering on the edge of famine.