Military sources said that violent clashes erupted between the Yemeni government forces and the militants of the UAE-backed transitional council in the southern governorate of Abyan, while a Saudi committee arrived in the province to supervise the ceasefire agreement.
This comes despite the Saudi-Emirati coalition announcing a cease-fire a few days ago and the two sides welcoming it.
Sources said that government forces took control of a new military site for the "transitional" militants east of Zanzibar.
The sources confirmed the arrival of a team of monitors from the Saudi-Emirati joint forces to the contact lines in the governorate to monitor the ceasefire.
For his part, the head of the mediation committee between the two parties in Abyan, Sheikh Faisal Belaid, demanded that the international road linking Aden with the rest of the southern governorates be opened for the passage of stranded people on both sides of the road.
Commission and endeavors
This comes at a time when a Yemeni government source confirmed the arrival of a Saudi committee in Abyan, to supervise the ceasefire on the front lines of fighting between government forces and the forces of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council.
According to what the source told Al-Jazeera Net, the committee in charge of monitoring the ceasefire had arrived in Sheikh Salem area, to supervise the ceasefire process and implement the agreement announced recently by the Saudi-Emirati coalition, in an attempt to revitalize the Riyadh agreement.
This comes after hours of intense fighting between the two sides in the Al-Tarya and Sheikh Salem regions and the city of Zanzibar (the administrative capital of Abyan Governorate) during the past hours.
The Saudi-Emirati alliance announced the day before Monday to reach a ceasefire between the Yemeni government and the Emirati-backed transitional council after the transitional council took control of Socotra (southern Yemen).
A spokesman for the coalition, Turki al-Maliki, said that the Yemeni government and the Transitional Council agreed to his request for a comprehensive cease-fire, a meeting in the Kingdom to move forward in implementing the Riyadh agreement signed between the two parties last November, and the return of political and military committees and teams to work to implement it urgently.
The Yemeni government has previously welcomed the call of the Saudi-Emirati coalition to stop the escalation and return to the Riyadh agreement.
White confrontations
In a separate context, military sources told Al-Jazeera Net that violent clashes erupted between government forces and the Houthi group in the Qaniya area, located between Al-Bayda and Marib governorates.
The battles were concentrated - according to the sources - in the Qaniyeh market after the Houthis attempted to advance in the area, which caused deaths and injuries on both sides, while the army artillery intensified its shelling on the movements and locations of the Houthis in the same front.