YEMEN Press Agency

Emirati arms shipment arrives in Socotra port

SOCOTRA, Aug. 3 (YPA) – An Emirati arms shipment arrived at the port of the occupied Socotra Island, southern Yemen, local sources reported on Monday.

The sources indicated that the militias of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) have tightened their control over the island’s port and airport, in preparation for unloading a shipment of weapons that arrived at the port.

The arrival of the UAE arms shipment with Saudi collusion, amid promises to normalize the situation on the island, comes after the STC control over the city of Hadibu, the island’s capital, in mid-June.

This came also after Saudi Arabia sponsored a new agreement between “Hadi’s government” and the STC, which included the latter’s abandonment of the so-called self-management that it announced at the end of last April.

 

YPA