Yemen’s president orders unity government to Aden after swearing-in in Saudi Arabia
The power-sharing agreement comes as Yemen's Houthi rebels have already largely seized control of the country's north
Yemen’s President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi ordered the country’s new unity government to relocate to Aden after its members were sworn in during a ceremony in Saudi Arabia’s capital yesterday.
The new Cabinet announced on Dec. 18 consists of Hadi loyalists as well as members of the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) and the Islamist Islah Party, the presidency said in a statement earlier this month.
Hadi on Sunday ordered the new government to begin tackling war-torn Yemen’s economic woes, according to Yemeni state news agency SABA. The Yemeni president-in-exile added that members of the new government should also take their oaths of office in Aden.
The power-sharing government is the belated result of Saudi Arabia’s efforts to broker a deal between its anti-Houthi coalition partners in Yemen. Representatives of the STC and Hadi’s government signed an agreement in Riyadh in November 2019 to eventually work toward a unity government, but setbacks culminated in the STC declaring self-rule in the south in April, which it has since renounced.
