This is one less thorn for the Saudi-UAE coalition in its laborious war in Yemen against its enemies, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who occupy entire regions of the country. The South Yemen Transitional Council on Wednesday announced it was relinquishing its autonomy, proclaimed on April 26. In return, their pro-Saudi Yemeni allies accepted the implementation of the Riyadh accord, signed in November 2019, on power sharing in the South, but never implemented. In recent months, these bickering had provoked violence between allies, while the Houthis took the opportunity to conquer other regions of a country plagued, since 2015, to a bloody civil war, and hit hard by the pandemic of Covid-19.
Read also: In Yemen, "the crisis has been added to the crisis"
Saudi Arabia has confirmed that it has proposed a plan to "speed up" the Riyadh deal. Its main clauses provide for the appointment of a new governor in Aden, the main city in the South, and that of a new head of
This article is for subscribers only. You have 69% left to discover.
Subscribe: 1 € for 2 months
Cancellable at any time
Enter your emailAlready subscribed? Log in
