In Yemen, separatists are giving up their autonomy in the south of the country and have said they are ready to implement a peace agreement, spokesman for the Southern Transitional Council (STC) Nizar announced on Twitter on Wednesday (July 29). Haitham.

Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, exiled in Saudi Arabia, had urged the separatists at the end of June to "end the bloodshed" and to respect a power-sharing agreement, during his first speech since their declaration autonomy of the South in April.

The conflict between the government and the STC separatists, in principle allies against the Houthi rebels, represents a war within the war in Yemen.

Observers deployed to monitor the truce in June

The so-called "Riyadh" agreement was signed in November 2019 and provides for a sharing of power in southern Yemen between the government and the separatists. But its provisions were hardly put in place and were quickly obsolete.

At the end of June, the military coalition led by Riyadh in Yemen had deployed Saudi observers to monitor a ceasefire decreed between pro-government forces, which it supports, and separatist fighters, after clashes in the South.

This war within war has made even more complex a conflict which, in five years, has left tens of thousands of deaths and caused, according to the United Nations (UN), the worst humanitarian crisis in the world in the world in Yemen, the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula.

With AFP

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