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Yemen’s Houthi takeover branded ‘coup’ by Gulf states
The dissolution of Yemen’s parliament and the takeover by an armed Shia Muslim group has been branded a “coup”, Kuwait’s official news agency said on Saturday.
A bomb exploded outside the republican palace in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Saturday and wounded three Shia militiamen guarding it, eyewitnesses said.
“This Houthi coup is a dangerous escalation which we reject and is unacceptable. It totally contradicts the spirit of pluralism and coexistence which Yemen has known,” the GCC, a group made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, was quoted as saying.
The attack raised tensions a day after the Houthi Shia militant group dissolved parliament and formally took power of the impoverished and strife-torn Arabian peninsula country.
Once the home of the resigned Yemeni prime minister, the republican palace now houses Mohammed al-Houthi, a top official in the Iranian-backed movement’s military wing whose gunmen hold sway over much of Yemen.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but Sunni Muslim militants in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) have repeatedly clashed with the increasingly powerful Houthis, raising fears of an all-out sectarian war.
Separately, thousands of demonstrators gathered in three cities in central Yemen to protest against the Houthis seizing power. Houthi gunmen dispersed dozens of activists near the capital’s main university by firing into the air.
Protesters chanted slogans calling the Houthi moves a coup and demanded the group withdraw its forces from major cities.
The Houthis entered Sana’a in September and began to fan out into more cities in Yemen’s south and west. Armed Houthi personnel were out in force after their Friday announcement, manning checkpoints around key government buildings.
Their spread has destabilised the country’s fragile security forces and stoked anger among tribal fighters allied to Aqap.
Four Houthi fighters were killed in a suspected Aqap attack in the southern al-Bayda.
The rebels have taken over state institutions, dissolving parliament and installing a new committee to govern the region’s poorest nation home to what Washington considers al-Qaida’s most dangerous offshoot.
While the rebels, known as Houthis, are bitter enemies to al-Qaida, they also are hostile to the United States, and frosty to Yemen’s predominantly Sunni northern neighbour, Saudi Arabia.
Yemen’s Houthi takeover branded ‘coup’ by Gulf states | World news | The Guardian
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The dissolution of Yemen’s parliament and the takeover by an armed Shia Muslim group has been branded a “coup”, Kuwait’s official news agency said on Saturday.
A bomb exploded outside the republican palace in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Saturday and wounded three Shia militiamen guarding it, eyewitnesses said.
“This Houthi coup is a dangerous escalation which we reject and is unacceptable. It totally contradicts the spirit of pluralism and coexistence which Yemen has known,” the GCC, a group made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, was quoted as saying.
The attack raised tensions a day after the Houthi Shia militant group dissolved parliament and formally took power of the impoverished and strife-torn Arabian peninsula country.
Once the home of the resigned Yemeni prime minister, the republican palace now houses Mohammed al-Houthi, a top official in the Iranian-backed movement’s military wing whose gunmen hold sway over much of Yemen.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but Sunni Muslim militants in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) have repeatedly clashed with the increasingly powerful Houthis, raising fears of an all-out sectarian war.
Separately, thousands of demonstrators gathered in three cities in central Yemen to protest against the Houthis seizing power. Houthi gunmen dispersed dozens of activists near the capital’s main university by firing into the air.
Protesters chanted slogans calling the Houthi moves a coup and demanded the group withdraw its forces from major cities.
The Houthis entered Sana’a in September and began to fan out into more cities in Yemen’s south and west. Armed Houthi personnel were out in force after their Friday announcement, manning checkpoints around key government buildings.
Their spread has destabilised the country’s fragile security forces and stoked anger among tribal fighters allied to Aqap.
Four Houthi fighters were killed in a suspected Aqap attack in the southern al-Bayda.
The rebels have taken over state institutions, dissolving parliament and installing a new committee to govern the region’s poorest nation home to what Washington considers al-Qaida’s most dangerous offshoot.
While the rebels, known as Houthis, are bitter enemies to al-Qaida, they also are hostile to the United States, and frosty to Yemen’s predominantly Sunni northern neighbour, Saudi Arabia.
Yemen’s Houthi takeover branded ‘coup’ by Gulf states | World news | The Guardian
@kollang @Serpentine @haman10 @mohsen @Syrian Lion @JEskandari @Arminkh @Daneshmand @Cheetah786 @beast89 @Malik Alashter @Alshawi1234 @Hasbara Buster @ALPfollowerOF373 @Ceylal @The SiLent crY @The Last of us
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