The takeover by the separatists of the administrations of Aden, the big port of the south of Yemen, was made " without incident ", confided Sunday a resident joined to the telephone. At midnight Saturday evening, the Southern Transition Council (CTS) had proclaimed the autonomy of the provinces of southern Yemen, a country ravaged by a war of twists and turns and the scene of a serious humanitarian crisis.
Supported by the United Arab Emirates, the Southerners fight, alongside the legitimate government supported by Saudi Arabia, the Houthi rebels, supported by Iran, who control the north of the country, including the capital, Sanaa. But for several years on the ground of this war which left more than 100,000 dead, pro-Emirati fighters and pro-Saudi soldiers have not displayed the same agendas.
In August, a month after a partial withdrawal from the Yemen, the southerners chased the pro-Saudis from Aden, where the Yemeni government in exile had resettled. " But intelligently ," adds our source,
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