Cooking gas crisis deepens in Saudi-controlled Aden amid rising fuel prices

ADEN, Sept. 19 (YPA) – The cooking gas crisis has been squeezing residents in the city of Aden and other provinces under Saudi control since the beginning of this year, amid calls for an escalation of popular protests against Riyadh.

Armed tribal roadblocks targeting gas trucks have intensified, preventing them from passing through the Al-Abr road toward Aden and other southern and eastern areas of Yemen, adding to the misery of residents amid the silence of the Saudi-backed government and its inability to secure the road.

The disruption has exacerbated the crisis facing Aden and other provinces, increasing the hardships faced by residents and motorists and directly affecting public transportation, amid the continued catastrophic deterioration of living conditions in those areas.

Since January, the Saudi Special Committee has used public services, including electricity and gas, as a weapon to squeeze residents in an attempt to impose Riyadh’s agenda on the southern street, which is calling for an end to foreign tutelage over southern Yemen.

Separately, the Saudi-backed government imposed a new price hike on petroleum products late last week in Aden and the cities of Mukalla and Seiyun in Hadramawt province, but not elsewhere.

In Aden, the government raised the price of gasoline by 80 rials per liter and diesel by 170 rials per liter. In the oil-rich province of Hadramawt, it imposed a 75-rial increase per liter of locally produced gasoline in Mukalla and Seiyun.

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