Clashes between Yemen’s government, separatists mar ceasefire

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Yemeni officials say battles in flashpoint Abyan province have killed at least 54 fighters on both sides in past 24 hours

Fighters loyal to Yemen's separatist Southern Transitional Council are pictured in the southern Abyan province on June 24, 2020.Fierce fighting continued in Southern Yemen between Emirati-backed separatists and the country’s internationally recognized government Thursday, security officials said, a blow to the Saudi-led coalition’s declared ceasefire between the factions.

The Saudi-led coalition, which is mired in a years-long conflict with Iranian-supported rebel Houthis, said earlier this week that the separatist and government forces had reached a truce. The agreement aims to close the rift between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, powerful regional allies in the U.S.-backed Arab coalition against the Houthis.

The secessionist council, which is an umbrella group of heavily armed and well-financed militias propped up by the United Arab Emirates since 2015, hopes to restore an independent Southern Yemen, which existed from 1967 until unification in 1990. Also on Thursday, fighting erupted between government forces and Houthi troops amid a shaky U.N.-brokered truce around Yemen’s crucial port city of Hodeida, which is the country’s main gateway for international aid. Three civilians, including two children, were killed when mortar shells fired by the Houthis crashed into a southern residential neighbourhood, according to witnesses and security officials. Three combatants also were killed in the exchange of artillery, they added.

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