Abyan Governor Saleh Al-Janidi stated that recent events in Hadhramaut and Mahrah clearly expose a Saudi-Emirati scheme targeting land, people, and resources in the occupied southern provinces.
He explained that the US–Saudi–UAE aggression—which destroyed national infrastructure, disabled refineries and ports, and plundered wealth over past years—has now moved toward imposing its colonial agendas as a de facto reality through local proxies, including militias and extremist terrorist groups.
Al-Janidi told the Yemeni News Agency (SABA) that the Saudi- and Emirati-driven fighting has no connection whatsoever to the just southern cause. Instead, he said it forms part of the broader fragmentation project pursued by the United States and the Israeli enemy, stressing that national issues cannot be resolved through dependency on traitors or by serving an occupation intent on undermining Yemen’s unity, independence, and territorial integrity.
He warned of the grave consequences of the violence planned and funded by the Saudi-Emirati aggression, noting that it threatens the social fabric and civil peace in the occupied provinces. What is unfolding, he added, is part of a decade-long conspiracy aimed at igniting a prolonged regional conflict among people of the same homeland.
The governor condemned the criminal practices of UAE-backed militias in Hadramawt, which attacked public and private property in Say’un and engaged in identity-based intimidation of residents.
He noted that such violations reflect the hostility of occupying forces toward all Yemenis—including the people of the southern and eastern provinces who themselves suffer under the brutality of the occupation’s tools.
Al-Janidi called on the free people of the southern provinces to remain vigilant and prepared for the true liberation battle—one aimed at ending the presence of foreign-backed proxy forces and regional occupiers across all southern and eastern areas, and paving the way for a new phase in which Yemenis enjoy full sovereignty over their land and resources.
