SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019
‘The STC don’t represent south
Yemen. If they come here we
will fight them’
As its humanitarian crisis continues to worsen, the nation’s north-south
divide – and the threat of a war within a war – are laid bare. Bel
Trew reports from the province of Mahra
Sheikh Ali Salem al-Huraizi, a tribal leader who says he will fight the STC if it comes to Mahra (Bel Trew)
The Yemeni tribesmen, with weathered Kalashnikovs slung low across their backs like rucksacks, huddle
when the news breaks that southern separatists have seized control of Aden, the country’s de facto capital.