Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) has rejected renewed calls to withdraw its forces from the eastern governorates of Hadramawt and Al-Mahra, saying it is nearing what it described as the “declaration of statehood” in the south. The remarks were made on Saturday evening by Ali al-Kathiri, head of the STC’s National Assembly, during a meeting with community leaders and dignitaries from the Rakhya district in the city of Seiyun in Hadramawt, according to a statement published on the council’s official website. Al-Kathiri said the south is approaching a decisive moment, adding that “the declaration of statehood is close and this hope is almost complete”. The Southern Transitional Council argues that successive Yemeni governments have politically and economically marginalised the southern […]
