Popular protests held in Mahra against pro-coalition authorities

MAHRA, Aug. 21 (YPA) – Hundreds of the people of the city of Al-Ghaydah, the center of Al-Mahra province, organized a protest rally to denounce the abuses that Rashad Al-Alimi, head of the Saudi-formed Presidential Leadership Council”, against the province’s people.

In the rally, which was held in front of the headquarters of the local authorities, the protesters raised banners demanding the provision of basic services such as electricity and water, holding accountable the corrupt who plunder the revenues of the province.

The demonstrators condemned the abuse that Al-Alimi launched on the people of Mahra, describing them as terrorists and smugglers of hashish, drugs and weapons, in line with the American project in the province.

After Al-Alimi’s accusations against Mahra’s sons, the head of the sit-in committee against the foreign presence in Mahra, Sheikh Ali Salem al-Harizi, called on “Al-Alimi” to apologize, stressing he came to implement the American and British agendas in coordination with Saudi Arabia.

Al-Harizi pointed out that Al-Alimi’s accusations also aimed to bring in more foreign forces, without “Al-Alimi” talking about the American and British violations against Yemeni sovereignty.

During the past months of this year, Saudi Arabia has tended to strip the eastern oil provinces of Yemen in order to serve the American-British-Zionist project in the region.

Since 2017, Saudi Arabia has converted Al-Ghaydah civilian airport in the province located on the Arabian Sea in eastern Yemen into a joint US-British-Zionist military base, amid frequent visits by the US ambassador to the coalition-backed government, the last of which was in early March as the commander of the US Fifth Fleet without briefing the local authorities on those visits.

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