The Prime Minister of Yemen’ National Salvation Government (NSG), Abdulaziz Bin Habtour called on southern Yemenis to rise up against the Saudi-UAE occupation, particularly in the port city of Aden which has been claimed as an interim capital by the Saudi-based government and is currently under the control of the UAE-supported separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC).
According to SABA news agency, the prime minister said: “The tragic situation in Aden and other occupied provinces and cities require the honest people in the south with support from the free people across Yemen to rise against the occupiers and their criminal and puppet militias.”
Habtoor’s statement was made during a meeting with his administration’s governor of Aden, Tariq Salim, where the latest developments in the south were discussed. Persistent disagreements between the UN-recognised government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and the STC in reaching the power-sharing deal known as the Riyadh Agreement have had disastrous impacts on the people, he said. Kidnapping and assassinations have also plagued the south as rival militia supported by the coalition leaders Saudi and the UAE regularly clash, notably in the neighbourin
