The Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, has welcomed the US President Joe Biden's decision to stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, considering is “an important first step to following through his promise” to end the war in Yemen.

In a statement on Twitter, Tawakkol Karman wrote: “I am pleased that President Joe Biden is pausing the sale of deadly weapons of war to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and this is an important first step to following through on his promises.”

She added that “Years of war in Yemen have left Yemenis suffering and starving”.

As I said in my Washington post’s op-ed, the Biden administration must continue to do more, she continued.

The American Wall Street Journal revealed, on Wednesday, that President Joe Biden's administration has imposed a temporary freeze on U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and is scrutinizing purchases by the United Arab Emirates as it reviews billions of dollars in weapons transactions approved by former President Donald Trump.