Southern separatists seized most Yemeni government security and military bases n...
ADEN - Southern separatists seized most Yemeni government security and military bases near the port of Aden on Tuesday after clashes between nominal allies that have complicated U.N. peace efforts, residents and officials said.
On Tuesday, they took over military police, special forces and military brigades camps in Zinjibar, around 60 km east of Aden in Abyan province, local officials said. STC president Aidaroos al-Zubaidi headed with a delegation to the Saudi city of Jeddah late on Tuesday after accepting the kingdom’s invitation to a summit on the crisis in Aden, the council said.The violence and cracks in the coalition are hampering U.N. efforts to advance peace deals elsewhere in the country and talks to end a war that has killed tens of thousands and driven the Arabian Peninsula country to the brink of famine.
Divisions have spread, with the war - widely seen as a proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite Muslim regional rival Iran - largely mired in stalemate.The STC said its forces would hold Aden until the Islamist Islah party, a backbone of Hadi’s government, and northerners were removed from power positions in the south.
“For too long the southern voice has been excluded from any negotiation table,” STC said in a statement to the U.N. Security Council ahead of a Yemen briefing on Tuesday in New York.
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