9 years revolution ... these are the most prominent events in Yemen

Mohammed Abdul-Malik - Al-Jazeera Net

On January 15, 2011 hundreds of students at the University of Sanaa managed to break the barrier of fear and protested to demand that people take to the streets along the lines of the Arab Spring protests in Tunisia and Egypt, and Taiz responded quickly to graduation on the night of February 11 in angry demonstrations demanding With the overthrow of the regime, the revolution protests erupted in most cities.

The youth revolution resulted in the announcement of the Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative project on April 13 of the same year, and it was signed at the end of November and included granting President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity and the start of arranging for new presidential elections.

New president
Nearly one year after the outbreak of the youth revolution - and according to the Gulf Initiative - Yemenis elected Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi as a new president by obtaining 99.8% of the votes in those elections in which he nominated unilaterally and participated in more than ten million voters.

National Dialogue
On the 18th of March 2013, the first session of the comprehensive national dialogue conference began in Sana'a with the support of the Gulf Cooperation Council states and the United Nations, and lasted until January 25, 2014 where the Yemeni President announced today the final document of the dialogue agreed upon by various parties and parties, including the youth of the revolution. And, the Houthis announced their withdrawal from the final session due to the assassination of their representative in the dialogue.

Houthi coup
On September 21, 2014, the Houthi group began its coup against the outcomes of the national dialogue, as well as the peace and partnership agreement signed by the government and Houthi representatives on the same day to end the crisis, at a time when the group was continuing its military build-up after it invaded the city of Amran (north) and extended it towards Sana'a and controlled all State institutions with the support of the former regime, and imposed house arrest on the legitimate president of his home in Sanaa.

The president's escape
Weeks after the Houthis put Hadi under house arrest, the President managed to escape to Aden by road where he arrived on February 20, 2015 to the temporary capital of Aden, and the Houthis continued to invade most cities and bombed the presidential palace and controlled the city, but Hadi again managed to He fled to Saudi Arabia and arrived on March 26, 2015.

Decisive Storm
At midnight March 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia announced the intervention of ten Arab states militarily in Yemen at the request of the legitimate president (Hadi) to stop the expansion of the Houthi group in the country, and called this operation "Storm Storm" as coalition fighters began bombing the camps and infrastructure facilities for Yemen In order to hit the military targets of the Houthis, from which civilians were not spared, as air strikes affected them from that date and are still ongoing.

Riyadh conference
On May 17, 2015, the "Riyadh Conference" was launched in the Saudi capital under the slogan "Saving Yemen and Building the Federal State" as a complement to what the Yemenis agreed at the National Dialogue Conference, and lasted for three days. More than four hundred personalities from various Yemeni forces and segments participated in it. In the presence of representatives of the United Nations, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab League.

The closing statement was issued by announcing support for the legitimacy of President Hadi and affirming the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2216, which was issued under Chapter Seven, and stipulating the withdrawal of the Houthis from Sana'a, the handing over of state institutions to the government, as well as the handing of the Houthis to the plundered weapon from state camps.

Separate negotiations
The war remained the same after the government managed to liberate some southern cities from the grip of the Houthis, and Riyadh subsequently announced the end of the Decisive Storm and the start of what it called "restoration of hope" on April 21, 2015, and the legitimate government entered into separate political negotiations with the Houthis that started from Geneva and then Kuwait Sweden, but all of them have not achieved peace for the Yemenis so far.

Saleh killed
The Houthi group claimed responsibility for the assassination of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh on December 4, 2017, and leaders of Saleh's Congress Party confirmed that a number of his leaders who were accompanied by Saleh, including Secretary General Aref al-Zuka, had been killed after their convoy was stopped while they were on their way. To Saleh's birthplace south of Sanaa, and that operation came after Saleh announced the end of his alliance with the Houthis.

Transitional and the coup of Aden
On May 4, 2017, the city of Aden witnessed massive demonstrations after President Hadi issued decisions to fire the governor of Aden, Aidarous al-Zubaidi, and Minister of State Hani bin Brik.

The "Aden Historical Declaration" was inaugurated on the same day, when the demonstrators authorized Zubaidi to form a southern leadership under his leadership, to represent the south politically, and days later, Zubaidi announced the formation of the "Southern Transitional Council" and the list included 17 southern figures, including leaders in the Southern Movement demanding secession from the North.

The Transitional Council then proceeded to form battalions and military forces with the support of the UAE and outside the framework of government forces, and ended with the control of the transitional forces over state institutions in Aden and Qasr Al-Maaseq on August 10, 2019 in a scenario similar to the Houthi control of Sana'a on September 21, 2014.

Legitimacy position has changed
The transitional coup against the legitimate government represented a watershed in the path of this government’s relationship with the Emirates. Hadi accused Abu Dhabi of supporting the “transitional coup” and the government stepped up its stance towards Abu Dhabi after Emirati planes targeted the government army forces at the entrances to the city of Aden on August 29, 2019 As a result, more than three hundred Yemeni soldiers were killed.

Riyadh Agreement
After months of escalating conditions in southern Yemen between the UAE-backed forces and the government, Saudi Arabia initiated a draft agreement between the two sides called it the "Riyadh Agreement" and the legitimate and "transitional" government signed it on November 5 in Riyadh.

The agreement provides for activating the role of state institutions and reorganizing the military forces under the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, and the participation of the "Southern Transitional" in negotiations to end the "Houthi coup" and the formation of a government of political competencies of a maximum of 24 ministers, but most of the terms of the agreement have not been implemented yet, nor The word "transitional" is removed in Aden as is the word for the Houthis in Sana'a at a time when "legitimacy" became the weakest link.