Latest Updates On Yemen, 1 September 2023

1- Aden:
– The Ministry of Defense of the resigned Yemeni government announced that it has auctioned four military boats and several fuel tanks.
– On August 31, a delegation from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, headed by Jassim Al-Budaiwi, Secretary-General of Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, traveled to the city of Aden, Yemen. This trip is the first visit by officials from the Persian Gulf littoral states to Aden since 2014.

2- Hadhramaut:
On August 30, a diplomatic and military advisory delegation from the United States, led by Steven Fagin, US ambassador to Yemen, entered the city of Seiyun. The US delegation visited the city of Seiyun and met with Mabkhout bin Mubarak bin Madi, Governor of Hadhramaut and other local officials of this city and discussed developments in Hadhramaut Governorate. This meeting took place while the US soldiers had entered Al-Gharfa village in western Seiyun in recent days.  

3- Taiz:
Al-Waziyah tribesmen attacked one of military bases belonging to forces affiliated to Tareq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, a Yemeni military commander and the nephew of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Al-Shaqira town, the center of Al-Waziyah district.  

4- Al-Hudaydah:
– Saudi-led coalition forces violated their ceasefire with Yemen 151 times in the Hudaydah Governorate during the past 48 hours.
– Saudi-led coalition drones bombed the Muqbanah District 12 times during the past 48 hours.

5- Al-Bayda:
On August 31, as a result of artillery attacks by militants affiliated to the Southern Transitional Council (STC) on the Ansar Allah movement’s positions in the Dhi Amkhashab area in Al-Zahir district, a child was martyred and another kid was injured.

6- Timothy Lenderking, US Special Representative for Yemen Affairs said that we support a permanent cessation of war in Yemen. There are difficult issues that Yemenis themselves must solve. It is not true that the US wants to achieve military interests through a problem in Yemen. We want to find a quick solution to the issue of Yemeni employees’ rights so that we can later go to other issues such as governance in Yemen.