Yemen's civil war just got a lot more complicated

A month ago I explained how the UAE was undermining Saudi's objectives in their war on the Yemeni people. The UAE's intrigues exploded today, thus opening up a new front in the war.

Yemen's prime minister has accused southern separatist forces backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of staging a "coup" after they seized several government offices during deadly clashes in the port city of Aden.
"In Aden, legitimacy is being overturned," Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher said in a statement on Sunday.
Clashes erupted in Aden early on Sunday after the army of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is supported by Saudi Arabia, tried to prevent separatists, backed by the UAE, from entering the city.
At least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded in the fighting, hospital sources were quoted as saying. The main airport was also reported closed.

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After a year-long stalemate, the Saudi coalition was finally starting to make headway against the Houthis. People stopped using "Yemen" and "quagmire" in the same sentence.
Now even the modest gains by the Saudis are in danger.

While I support the separatists, I also recognize that the UAE is terrible as well.

In its 2018 World Report Human Rights Watch confirmed that “the UAE committed violations inside and outside the country in 2017. It arrested one of the most outspoken critics in the country and played a role in torturing and forcibly causing people to disappear in Yemen”.
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https://www.newsmax.com/world/middleeast/ml-yemen-diphtheria/2018/01/21/...

Children deaths in #Yemen in the past 22 months: 113,000
(Source: #SaveTheChildren, #UNICEF)

I know there is plenty of warfare and drone death too, but it seems to me we have the country under siege starving them out. Is that a reasonable analysis?

Thanks for the update on our criminal activities.

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