The people of Taiz denounce the tampering of the Emirates in Yemen, armed with skill, preventing the "transitional" from entering it

Local sources said that gunmen from the tribes of Al-Mahra in eastern Yemen closed the roads leading to the governorate and prevented the supporters of the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council from outside Al-Mahra from entering it.

Tribes also took control of the arenas in which the transitional council said it would hold an event on Saturday.

This came in conjunction with an emergency meeting held by the Security Committee in Al-Mahra Governorate, in the presence of military and tribal leaders, regarding the movements of the Transitional Council in the province.

The transitional council announced the establishment of an event in Al Mahrah Governorate, while tribes in the governorate and the sit-in committee vowed to block the event, which it said paved the way for trying to topple the province by the militias of the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Amer Saeed Kalshat, head of the peaceful sit-in committee in Al-Mahra Governorate, east of Yemen, said that what happened in Aden and Socotra over the control of the UAE-backed transitional council forces will not be repeated in Al-Mahra. In a statement to Al Jazeera, he affirmed that they will not allow the implementation of any targets for external parties in Al Mahra.

Not to mess with the Emirates

For their part, the people of the Yemeni governorate of Taiz renewed their rejection of what they described as the futility of the UAE in their country.

Activists and residents of the city organized a protest march after Friday prayers at Freedom Square, during which they denounced what the UAE is doing through its forces or militias that formed it in Taiz and other Yemeni cities, and demanded the departure of these forces and militias and called on the legitimate government to end the role of the Emirates within the coalition.

They also expressed their refusal to form armed militias outside the framework of the official state institutions, including the militias that were formed by the Emirates in the name of the Republic’s guards on the western coast of Yemen led by Tariq Saleh, son of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s brother.