In his report in The New York Times, reporter Declan Walsh described what was happening in Yemen as a "war within war", and noted that the announcement of the Yemeni separatists' autonomy in Aden complicated Saudi efforts to withdraw from the war.
Walsh said in his report to the American newspaper, "After five years of war, it appears that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, began in recent weeks to distance himself from his devastating campaign in Yemen, taking advantage of Corona's pandemic opportunity to announce a unilateral ceasefire, which, despite its ineffectiveness," At least he indicates that the prince finally agreed with his critics, who insisted that it was impossible to win this fight.
He added that Ben Salman's allies - though - have other ideas, as the announcement of self-rule at the weekend by the Yemeni separatist group that seized the southern port city of Aden and its central bank threatens with new chaos in the war-torn country.
He stated that this comes at a time when the main sponsors of the Saudi and UAE wars are moving away from the fighting because of their own problems, and this has made their Yemeni allies - who were previously united against Iran-backed Houthis and who control the north of the country - fighting for sovereignty.
The author of the report saw that these developments come at the worst time. International funding for humanitarian aid to the country threatened by famine has decreased this year, and regional actors are distracted by the epidemic, and aid workers are striving to support the shattered Yemeni health system in the face of a potentially devastating outbreak of a virus. Sk.
The newspaper pointed out that the declaration of autonomy by a separatist group called the Southern Transitional Council raises the specter of renewed clashes within the coalition that bin Salman collected in 2015, in an attempt to drive the Houthi rebels out of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
She stated that the war inside the war added another dimension to the chaos of Yemen, where years of foreign intervention ignited Yemeni rivalries and power struggles.
Analysts say any violent clashes between the two sides are likely to erupt in the Abyan province, which lies between their forces.
The New York Times concluded that it appears that Muhammad bin Salman's appetite for the war in Yemen has diminished in the past year, amid global condemnation of Saudi military tactics that have killed thousands of civilians in air strikes, and that the decline in oil prices in recent weeks has increased the financial pressure of the war in the Kingdom in a manner Big.