Popular unrest escalated in Abyan Governorate, southern Yemen, on Wednesday, coinciding with the worsening suffering and deterioration of citizens’ living conditions.
Today, protesting citizens closed a number of exchange shops in the city of Lawdar, north of the governorate, in protest against what they described as currency manipulation by money changers.
This comes amid a historic collapse of the local currency in areas controlled by the pro-coalition government, where the exchange rate reached about 2,000 Yemeni riyals to the dollar.
