A new turn in Yemen..What after the UAE-backed transitional council declared autonomy for the south?

The Yemeni crisis is entering a new turn, after the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council declared a state of emergency and self-management for southern Yemen, days after the floods disaster that struck the city and caused the disruption of services, which angered citizens who protested against the legitimate government and the Transitional Council.

Although the Southern Transitional Council controlled the city of Aden since last August, and it controlled the security of most of the state's institutions and headquarters after forcing the government to leave the city and not allow it to return to it, it still required it to pay salaries and provide services, which are the reasons for which it was driven Justifications for his last announcement.

Local Yemeni sources told the island that after the announcement of midnight last night, the Transitional Council forces began to deploy military patrols in all streets of Aden, and surrounded the central bank that is administratively supervised by the legitimate government authorities as is the case in most state institutions, at a time when the transitional forces are controlling Security alongside the Saudi-Emirati coalition forces on the ground.

Death announcement
The adviser to the Yemeni Information Minister Mukhtar al-Rahbi describes the escalation of the southern transition as dangerous, and he says it represents a new rebellion against regional agreements and international resolutions that recognize only the legitimate government, most notably Security Council Resolution 2216.

According to Al-Rahbi’s talk to Al-Jazeera Net, this development represents the death announcement of the Riyadh agreement that was signed last November in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and the transitional period has been postponed in its implementation, and he refused to fulfill his entitlements during the past five months.

"We are facing escalation and new scenarios that may make the Yemeni scene more complicated, and we wait for a position from Saudi Arabia being responsible for sponsoring the Riyadh agreement, because the transitional statement seemed clear as if it was a declaration of war and a rebellion against legitimacy that is not very different from the constitutional declaration of the Houthis when they embarked on the legitimate institutions in Sana'a in 2014. "

A presidential adviser said in a telephone conversation with Al-Jazeera Net - who asked not to be named - that the transitional option to jump on the efforts made by Saudi Arabia to make the Riyadh agreement succeed and return matters to normal in Aden, may open a door for a new conflict in the coming days that may affect its partner in the UAE alliance, That continues to support transitional and undermine legitimacy.

The Presidential source was surprised, surprised, and surprised that the transitional resort to this reckless step at a time when military mediation is being conducted under the supervision of Saudi Arabia in order to conclude a joint agreement between the government army and the transitional forces in the governorates of Aden and Abyan during the past days.

On the other hand, Yasser Al-Yafie, a journalist close to the Transitional Council in southern Yemen, believes that the transitional announcement came late because the legitimate government has failed over the past five years to provide the most basic services to the liberated areas, and it has failed to secure the northern governorates and stop the Houthis from marching.

The transitional declaration aims, according to Al-Yafii’s talk to Al-Jazeera Net, to preserve the victories achieved by the news of the south, and the step of implementing self-management for Aden and the south was required three years ago as a result of the divisions that legitimacy suffers and the people of the south can no longer continue to pay the price more than they did So far, as he put it.

Possible scenarios
In an attempt to anticipate the image that southern Yemen might appear after the announcement of the transition, Al-Jazeera Net spoke with Yemeni political analyst Khaled Aqlan, where he said that the closest possible scenarios awaiting the political and military scene is to go towards more dumping in the conflict between the people of the south themselves. And to create more differences and evoke past conflicts that still cast a shadow on the political scene and with direct nutrition from both sides of the Saudi-Emirati coalition.

It seems that the coalition has a desire to keep the south in a state of permanent war in order to be able to achieve its geopolitical goals, which are totally inconsistent with the objectives of military intervention in Yemen, according to Aklan.

Aklan affirms that the transitional decision came from Abu Dhabi and does not take into account at all the sensitivity of the humanitarian situation in Aden, as it explains the transitional flight from the benefits of the Riyadh agreement and a rush to the unknown, in light of the difficult circumstances in Aden after the disaster of torrents and the absence of government and coalition efforts to save the city.

"It can be said that the general picture has now become clear. Six years of war in Yemen and the Saudi-Emirati alliance continues to insult and absent the legitimate government and dismantle the Yemeni state, and supports the transitional militia and enables it politically through the Riyadh agreement to be a peer to legitimacy, and militarily by imposing an order New reality in Aden. "