Tag Archives: Southern Transitional Council

Jasser al-Shahed* Will the new UN special envoy to Yemen, Swedish diplomat Hans Grundberg, succeed where his predecessor Martin Griffiths failed? This is the question on everyone’s minds as the time approaches for Grundberg to assume his duties. It follows calls from analysts and commentators to reassess the strategies used …

Egypt Independent After attending several of the so-called “summer camps,” Samir was filled with an urgent desire to fight on the Houthi side in Yemen’s civil war. During the camp training sessions, the 15-year-old local had heard Houthi insurgents explain their years-long fight against the official Yemeni government from their perspective. Additionally, religious teachers …

Egypt Independent Dozens of Yemeni protesters stormed a Presidential palace in the Southern port city of Aden on Tuesday, demanding payment of public sector salaries, witnesses said. “Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik and other members of the internationally recognised government were besieged inside the building”, Yemeni officials noted. Aden is …

Egypt Independent “Clashes resumed in Southern Yemen between the Emirati-backed separatists and the internationally recognized government”, officials said on Wednesday. The renewed violence comes after the Southern Transitional Council (STC) suspended participation in talks to implement the Saudi-brokered peace deal. The STC, an umbrella group of militias backed by the …

Ahram Online “Saudi Arabia has presented a framework to expedite the stalled November deal in South Yemen, designed to end the standoff between nominal allies in the Saudi-led coalition”, Saudi state press agency SPA said on Wednesday. Riyadh is seeking to unite separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) and legitimate government …

Egypt Independent A Yemeni rights organisation accused both sides in the country’s civil war, on Tuesday, of “arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances and torture of thousands in the past four years, in unofficial detention centres across Yemen”. The Mwatana Organization for Human Rights said, it “documented over 1,600 cases of arbitrary …

Ahram Online Egypt welcomed the announcement by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, for a ceasefire and de-escalation between the Saudi-backed government and Southern Transitional Council (STC), a statement by the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry affirmed Egypt’s “support to all efforts aiming to achieve peace, security and stability” …

Egypt Independent “Saudi Arabia has proposed a framework to end the latest standoff in South Yemen between nominal allies under a Saudi-led coalition”, sources told Reuters. Clashes between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a separatist group, have complicated UN efforts to end Yemen’s ruinous conflict and …

Ahram Online Southern separatists in Yemen seized a consignment of Billions of Riyals intended for the central bank in Aden on Saturday. An attempt to wrench control from the Saudi-backed government was launched at the time of declaring self-rule in the South in April. “Forces loyal to the Southern Transitional …

Ahram Online Fourteen combatants were killed in Yemen on Saturday, as fighting between pro-government troops and separatist forces entered its sixth day in the southern province of Abyan, according to sources on both sides. Forces of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) are resisting an offensive by pro-government troops launched on …