STC overthrows Al-Alimi’s decision regarding UAE-backed factions’ control of eastern Yemen

ADEN, Dec. 05 (YPA) – In an urgent step that revealed serious dimensions, about the processes of exclusion and marginalization that await the provinces of eastern Yemen after being controlled by factions affiliated with the UAE.

The minister of transport in the coalition-backed Aden government, Abdulsalam Saleh Hamid on Thursday issued a new decision outside the directions of the Saudi-funded Presidential Leadership Council (PLC).

Hamid’s decision to appoint a new director of the port of Nashtun in Mahra province, which was the subject of controversy between the local authority in Mahra and the Aden government, after the approval of the PLC, led by Rashad al-Alimi, early last October, on a decision taken by the Ben Brik government to close a number of ports, including the port of Nashtun.

Although the UAE-funded Southern Transitional Council, to which Transport Minister Abdul Salam Hamid belongs, was at the forefront of the forces supporting the implementation of the decision to close the ports covered by the al-Alimi decision, but the STC worked to change its position once it took control of Mahra province on Thursday.

Observers believed that the STC decision to acquire the port of Nashtun was a serious indicator of the attitudes carried by the factions loyal to the UAE towards the future of the provinces of eastern Yemen, which were controlled by the UAE factions during an accelerated military operation that began last Monday in the Valley and the Hadramout desert before landing today in Mahra.

Many observers affirmed that the control of the UAE factions so quickly over the provinces of Hadramout and Mahra comes in the context of a Saudi-sponsored scheme directed by the United States to try to divide Yemen.

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