Yemen update 4/24/2016..”Political solutions needed …”
DETAILS OF ENGLISH NEWS IN YEMEN 24 4 2016
Yemen peace talks underway in Kuwait
Al Jazeera English update on #Yemen Peace talks in #Kuwait
Yemeni, UAE troops seize Qaeda-held seaport city: residents
https://www.yahoo.com/news/saudi-led-air-strikes-kill-10-al-qaeda-094706152.html
Yemeni and Emirati soldiers seized Yemen’s seaport of Mukalla from al Qaeda fighters on Sunday, depriving the group of the seaport that enabled it to amass a fortune amid the country’s civil war.
Around 2,000 Yemeni and Emirati troops advanced into Mukalla, local officials and residents said, taking control of its maritime port and airport and setting up checkpoints throughout the southern coastal city.
There was little fighting after a mostly Gulf Arab alliance and Yemeni forces mobilised their forces at Mukalla’s suburbs, and the militants may have chosen to leave peacefully.
Residents said local clerics and tribesmen had been in talks with the group earlier in the day to exit quietly and that fighters withdrew westward to neighbouring Shabwa province.
Mukalla has been the centre of a rich mini-state that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) built up over the past year as it took control of an almost 600-km (370-mile) band of Arabian Sea coastline.
“Political solutions needed to end crisis in Yemen, Syria”
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/04/yemen-update-4242016political-solutions.html
