Aug. 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The governor of the Yemeni province of Shabwa, Awad al Awlaki, has survived a bomb attack prepared against his convoy in the midst of recent weeks of violent internal crisis between the different factions that make up the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) of Yemen , in their fight against the Houthi insurgency.
According to a statement from his office, the governor’s security detail identified a bomb on the road where his vehicle was traveling on its way back from Nisab to the provincial capital, Ataq. His bodyguards proceeded to dismantle the explosive device and have begun “security and intelligence investigations to locate those responsible,” according to the note collected this Saturday by the South24 news portal.
In the middle of this month, Yemeni authorities accused the forces of what was at the time the country’s great opposition party, Al Islá, of rebellion, after a week of violent clashes between factions in Shabwa, which began precisely when Al Awlaki decided to dismiss a party militia commander, sparking serious street clashes between rival security units in the capital.
Thus, Al Awlaki ended up ordering the paramilitary forces of the Giants Brigades — belonging to separatist groups in the south, also affiliated with the CLP — to carry out an operation to repress the forces of Al Islá, in a intensification of the clashes that ended up leaving 28 dead and more than 60 wounded in the province.
Critics of Al Islá accuse the formation, linked at the time to the Muslim Brotherhood, of maintaining complicity with the Houthi insurgency and of being, in general, toxic actors against the fragile unity of the Yemeni authorities in their fight against the Houthis.
This tension extends to the international level, mainly Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, great representatives of the international coalition that helps the Yemeni authorities, and that sometimes divide loyalties between the members that form the Yemeni national alliance against the insurgents.
Saudi Arabia extends its courtesy to the government forces while the Emirates is more favorable to the separatists in the south of the country, reluctantly allied with the Yemeni government and Al-Isla despite these violent frictions in their common cause against the Houthis.
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