Security forces, backed by the United Arab Emirates, launched raids on houses in Aden governorate (southern Yemen) and arrested several people.
Local sources in the province said that forces from the security belt raided a number of houses in the districts of Mansoura and Dar Saad, including the home of the leader of the Southern Movement Hassan Banan.
It is noteworthy that the security belt forces have been continuing the campaign of raids and arrests in the province of Aden since the transitional council took control of the city and seized the state institutions last August.
On the other hand, said Abdul Aziz Jabbari, deputy speaker of the Yemeni parliament that the Yemeni government has asked the Saudi authorities more than once to rein in the UAE in Yemen.
He added that Riyadh had told the Yemenis that it could not do without the role of the UAE, and that it could not oblige the UAE to abide by the basis of the Saudi-Emirati alliance on the role of the alliance.
Jabbari described the silence of the Yemeni president and his government on the recent UAE strikes of the Yemeni National Army as "treason."
These developments coincided with the injury of two people, one of them a soldier, after the explosion of a motorcycle bomb in the Directorate of Shibam in the province of Hadramout (southeastern Yemen).
A military source said that the motorcycle targeted a military patrol of the Yemeni army, and that a number of cars caught fire as a result of the bombing. The attack was followed by a massive security and military deployment in Shibam and the closure of the area's outlets.
Local sources said last week that dozens of UAE armored vehicles had arrived in Aden to reinforce the UAE-backed security belt.
She added that about sixty armored vehicles arrived by ship to Aden, and were admitted to camps belonging to the security belt.