Yemen update 5/22/2016..Yemen’s Hadi government to end peace talks boycott
Yemen’s Ansarullah says won’t give in to bullying
Yemeni[exiled] government to rejoin UN-brokered peace talks
The Yemeni government is going to rejoin UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait, ending a four-day boycott. Yemen’s foreign minister said on Sunday that the government had agreed to give the peace talks a last chance.
Yemen govt to end peace talks boycott: UN
The Yemeni government delegation is to rejoin UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait with Shiite rebels who control the capital, ending a four-day boycott, the UN special envoy said on Sunday.
The hard-won negotiations on ending a conflict that has killed more than 6,400 people and driven 2.8 million from their homes since March last year have been interrupted by repeated boycotts by the government delegation since they opened on April 21.
UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi had agreed to end the latest boycott after mediation by UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Qatari emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.
Hadi’s supporters had baulked at discussing rebel proposals for a unity government that they fear will sideline him and undermine his claim to international legitimacy.
They insist that the talks should focus instead on enforcing an April 2015 UN Security Council resolution demanding the rebels’ withdrawal from the capital and other territories they have overran since 2014.
Foreign Minister Abdulmalek al-Mikhlafi said on Twitter that the government had agreed to give the peace talks a “last chance.”
“We have fixed all the references. This is a first step on the path for a real peace that leads to implementing Resolution 2216 beginning with withdrawals, surrender of weapons and the restoration of state institutions,” he said.
Despite a 14-month-old Saudi-led military intervention in support of Hadi’s government, the rebels and their allies still control many of Yemen’s most populous regions, including the central and northern highlands and the Red Sea coast.
Houthis fighters broken into an important Saudi military site in Jizan called Alhatherh
“A search confirmed that these fighters were about to carry out a surprise terrorist attack on some military command centres at dawn this morning.” [Reuters]
Yemeni troops killed 13 fighters in a raid outside the southern city of Mukalla, which was ruled by Al-Qaeda until last month.
“Special forces and the army gained complete control over the site backed up by helicopters from the Arab coalition, which dealt with groups of terrorists spread around the area who were fleeing,” Yemeni army said in a statement on Sunday.
“A search confirmed that these fighters were about to carry out a surprise terrorist attack on some military command centres at dawn this morning.”
A security official said the fighters were from Al-Qaeda.
Hours after the raid three more fighters were killed as a car bomb they were preparing detonated in the courtyard of a house in the Rawkab area where the raid had taken place, residents and a security official told Reuters news agency.
They said that security forces were combing the area for more gunmen and explosives.
Before being forced out, Al-Qaeda fighters took advantage of more than a year of war between Iran-allied Houthi forces and supporters of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to carve out a mini-state stretching across much of the country’s southern coast, including Mukalla.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/05/yemen-update-5222016yemens-hadi.html
