YEMEN Press Agency

Leader in Mahrah’s sit-in committee calls for confronting British forces

MAHRAH, Aug. 14 (YPA) – Badr Kalashat, a leader of the Mahrah sit-in protest committee and a former Hadi government official, warned today of the danger of British forces arriving in al-Ghaydah, and promised to confront them and any other foreign presence.

Kalashat said in a tweet that “Mahrah will not be a field for foreign forces and regional and international conflicts to settle their accounts on flimsy pretexts.”

Kelashat stressed that the presence of British troops in Mahrah cannot be tolerated.

He called on all free Yemeni people to counter attempts to occupy their country.

E.M