The separatist Southern Transitional Council declared self-rule in the south of Yemen in April [File: Nabil Hasan/ AFP]
Posted on 08/03/2020 8:52:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Yemen's southern separatists have pledged to abandon their aspirations for self-rule and implement a Saudi-brokered power-sharing agreement with the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The Southern Transitional Council's (STC) announcement on Wednesday marked a big step towards closing a major front in Yemen's chaotic war, and came hours after Saudi Arabia presented a plan to "accelerate" the stalled peace deal's implementation.
Signed in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in November last year, the agreement set the stage for the end of a long-running rivalry between the Saudi-supported Hadi government and the UAE-backed southern separatists. Both sides are supposed allies in the Saudi-led military coalition's war against Yemen's Houthi rebels, who control the country's capital, Sanaa.
The Riyadh agreement stipulated the formation of a new unity government within 30 days and the appointment of a new governor and security director for Aden, an STC stronghold and the interim seat of Hadi's government.
It also specified, among others, the centralisation of all armed groups under government control.
But the deal was never implemented and in April, the separatists declared self-rule and seized control of Aden, a move that ignited fierce fighting across southern Yemen and the Socotra archipelago...
Shortly after the STC's pledge to rescind self-rule, Yemen's state-run SABA news agency named the newly appointed security director and governor of Aden - Ahmed al-Amlas.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
The separatist Southern Transitional Council declared self-rule in the south of Yemen in April [File: Nabil Hasan/ AFP]
I bet being president of Yemen is a fun job.
From the article:
“... the five-year conflict, which has killed tens of thousands of people and created the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.”
“... with the Houthi rebels, which has pushed millions to the brink of famine and settled into a bloody stalemate.”
“ Yemen’s economy is collapsing, he continued, food prices are surging, and to make matters worse, an abandoned oil tanker moored off the coast and loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil is at risk of rupture or exploding.
“I do not wish to sugarcoat things,” Griffiths said, warning that the country could plunge at any moment into “a new phase of prolonged escalation, uncontrolled spread of COVID-19, and economic decline”.
Just another day without rule of law and capitalism in the third world.
No way it can hold up, though, since you’ll have at least 1 million unemployed men (former soldiers) to deal with. There’s really nothing else to do in that part of the world but shoot at each other.
it is sad that until the advent of Islam, Yemen was one of the centers of civilization
Job one in the morning is to make sure the car will start and has plenty of gas in the tank.
Isn't it remarkable how the Obama-era buzzword "Arab Spring" has vanished from the DNC talking points and by extension from the copy being regurg'd by partisan media shills?
They need jobs. Who knows, maybe standing around sweating will become a vocation as well as an avocation.
So, would you prefer to be president of Yemen, or Lebanon? :^)
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