Worsening of services sparks angry protests in Shabwa
SHABWA, Jan. 09 (YPA) – Dozens of Angry protesters staged on Wednesday against the deterioration of living and services in the province of Shabwa.
During the protests, the participants closed down one of the headquarters of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in the Markha As Sufla district.
Local sources said that the demonstration came in response to the general discontent with in the district, in addition to the ongoing marginalization it suffers from in various fields.
The sources explained the protesters tore up the STC’s slogans expressing their rejection of the continuation of what they described as systematic exclusion and the absence of service projects.
The protestors prevented the leaders of the STC from entering the center of the district in a protest message that coincided with a state of escalating anger towards the coalition due to the worsening economic and service crisis, amid accusations against leaders loyal to Islah Party of being behind the incident.
The incident highlighted the growing wave of popular protests against the STC and the coalition-affiliated Aden government, due to the economic collapse and its impact on rising food prices in addition to the deterioration of various services.
On 26 March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition has carried out thousands of air strikes which have killed tens of thousands of people, and wounded others, in addition to destroyed infrastructure of Yemen, according to the UN.
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