In the BBC report “Crises multiply for divided Yemen” Deputy Planning Minister Hisham Sharaf said: “We have one Yemen and one state”, makes wonder why the president’s reconciliation effort excluded the South-Yemen separatists and the Houthis in the north?
Human Rights Watch released a report called “In the name of unity” explains what’s really going on in the South Yemen, based on 80 interviews conducted by HRW with a number of victims of the attacks in Aden and Mukalla, as the report concludes that the Yemeni security forces used violence against unarmed demonstrators in six demonstrations at the very least.
On the war front with the Houthis, Yemeni police seized a truck loaded with weapons heading to Houthis in the north, but Al-Marsad correspondent who was in the area said he did not saw these weapons.
Speaking about arms and weapons, the Yemeni government claims the seizure of Iranian weapons, but the Head of the Yemen National Security revealed to Al-Hayat that Army officers are smuggling weapons to the Houthis.
Houthis leader Yehiya Al-Houthi released a statement addressing the Yemeni people, accusing the U.S. with bombing North Yemen and Sa’ada area