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| Hadi works to stamp his authority in Aden |
| 2015-09-24 |
| [ARABNEWS] Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi is working to restore his authority after returning from six months of exile with a vow to liberate the country from Shiite Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels. Hadi's first act was to chair a meeting of Cabinet members already back in the southern port city of Aden. He instructed the ministers to focus on basic services such as water, electricity, housing, health care and security for ordinary Yemenis. On the security front, the 70-year-old president stressed the need to integrate members of the Popular Resistance pro-government militia into the regular army, the government-run Saba news agency reported. The president promised the Yemeni people that the Houthis, who hailed from the mountainous north, would be driven from the capital Sanaa. "The return to the capital Sanaa will come soon after the liberation of all cities and provinces," from the hands of militias, he said in a statement. Analysts view the return of Hadi as mostly symbolic in the short term. "It's a signal to all the actors, in the Houthi-camp or anti-Houthi, that the legitimate government is back," said Mathieu Guidere, a professor and Middle East specialist at the University of Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... in La Belle France. "This will not in itself change much on the ground but it will open up the road to Sanaa for the coalition, at the official invitation of the sitting government," he said. |
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