Al Dale' - Southern Yemen - During the peaceful demonstrations in the city of Al-Dhalea in South Yemen, a message emerged that extends far beyond local geography and reaches the very core of the international order.
A crowd linked to Yemen’s separatist Southern TransitionalCouncil (STC) attempted to storm a local government building in the southeastern Yemeni city of Ataq, leaving several dead, according to local authorities and sources.
Protesters and political actors also described the incident as in their words a return to the use of the “card of religious extremist groups” to suppress popular movements in the south.
He argued that the gathering served as a definitive political message confirming adherence to the constitutional declaration regarding the restoration of the "SouthYemenState," which the council announced Jan.
In recent weeks, Israel recognised Somaliland as an independent state while across the Gulf of Aden, separatist factions renewed calls for the re-establishment of SouthYemen. A quiz on the two breakaway regions ....
Members of the Southern TransitionalCouncil (STC), which seeks an independent state for southern Yemen, have dismissed a declaration by their colleagues in Riyadh who announced on Friday that the body had been dissolved.
One was the flag of the former SouthYemen, resurrected as a symbol of Yemen’s secessionist southern movement ...STC had de facto control over much of the former South Yemen ... What now for South Yemen?.
... to dislodge the Houthi rebels from Yemen’s north, but after a brutal, decade-long civil war, the Houthis remain in place while the Saudi and Emirati-backed factions attack each other in the south.
The Hebrew newspaper Maariv said Israel is considering recognising an emerging entity in southern Yemen backed by the United Arab Emirates, following its announcement recognising Somaliland.
They have become the UAE pawns and are sowing the seeds of Yemen division,” Mohammed al-Farah, a member of the political bureau of Ansarullah, stated on Friday ... “They are doing this through their mercenaries in Yemen.