Yemeni tribal protests over Saudi tutelage

Zabnout tribe organized a protest in Yemen's Al-Mahra governorate to express their rejection of what they called Saudi custody over a shipping outlet.

During their vigil, members of the Zabnout tribe announced the closure of the Transitional Council office in the Directorate, and raised slogans in support of the legitimacy of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

The tribal leader, Muslim Mohammad Zabnout, called on the Saudis not to disrupt trade or harass passengers at a shipping port.

Zabnout said that the decisions that caused the disruption of the outlet is an economic war on the province of al-Mahra in particular, as well as the whole of Yemen, as he put it.

A few days ago, party leaders, political and social figures and some tribal elders in Yemen announced the formation of the Southern National Salvation Council during a conference held in the city of Ghaida, the capital of the Al-Mahra governorate adjacent to Oman.

Among the most prominent objectives announced by the Council in the declaration declaration "to seek to stop the war and lift the siege, and to save Yemen from the state of division and fragmentation, and continue to reject all attempts to truncate and fragmentation of the country and its islands, and to prevent any developments by the Saudi-Emirati coalition directly or through local tools." .

The council chose former Undersecretary of Al-Mahra Ali Salem Al-Huraizi as its supervisory authority, while Azal Omar Al-Jawi was appointed secretary-general, Awad Mohammed bin Farid as head of the security and defense department, and Ahmed Al-Hassan as a spokesman for the council, while the council postponed the appointment of the heads of other departments until the founding conference of the council. .

Since late 2017, there have been signs of rejection of the UAE-Saudi presence, which has been reinforced over time by the control of vital facilities such as the airport, port and border ports, as well as the formation of forces loyal to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi outside the official framework, and popular rejection was manifested in sit-ins and demonstrations.

Opposition has intensified as Saudi influence expands through the construction of military facilities, and its quest to build an oil pipeline extending from its territory in the border region of Al Kharkhir to the Arabian Sea through the skilled.

Riyadh Agreement
On another Yemeni issue, the UAE-backed Transitional Council described the agreement it signed in Riyadh with the Yemeni government on Thursday evening as establishing a new phase.

In a tweet on Twitter, Abdul Malik al-Mikhlafi, an advisor to the Yemeni president and former foreign minister, described the Riyadh agreement as positive.He said it reinforces legitimacy and efforts to restore the state.He explained that the agreement includes the formation of a new government and achieve broad reforms, and makes all military and security formations under the leadership of the ministries of defense and interior.

Al-Mikhlafi added, in another tweet, that the agreement starts from the three references and the results of the Riyadh conference, and aims to strengthen unity in the face of what he called the Houthi coup and the Iranian project, and said that the goal of the Saudi-led coalition is to restore the state at the request of President Hadi.

A Yemeni government source confirmed to Al-Jazeera that the government and the Southern Transitional Council - backed by the United Arab Emirates - signed an agreement in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Thursday evening, and said that the agreement provides for the formation of a unity government of 24 ministers equally between north and south Yemen, and to integrate military and security formations into structures The ministries of defense and interior, the return of the government to Aden to activate state institutions, and the formation of a joint committee led by Saudi Arabia to implement the terms of the agreement.