Saudi Arabia establishes Salafist center in Dhalea

DHALEA, Jan. 10 (YPA) – Saudi Arabia on Sunday has established the largest Salafist group camp in the southern Yemeni city of Dhalea, Yemen News Portal (YNP) reported, citing local sources.

According to YNP, the move aimed at blocking the UAE-backed southern transitional council that its factions that are seeking to maneuver against Riyadh amid recent fears of rapprochement with the ” Houthis”.

Saudi-based Salafist leaders have opened the largest religious complex known as the “House of Hadith for Islamic Sciences” aimed at settling hundreds of fighters of pro-Saudi Salafist groups.

The Saudi move has sparked controversy in the socialist city, which lacks the most basic services, most notably hospitals, where activists have accused Saudi Arabia of not paying attention to the size of the Salafist resettlement.

The center would bring the city, which forms the northern gate of Aden to Saudi control, through the Salafist movement, a move that aims Saudi Arabia to establish a belt between the north and the south and has already set up several centers in Lahj, specifically in the border areas with Taiz, as well as in Yafa’a on the border with Bayda.

E.M