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Arrival of the Yemeni government machinery in Aden
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At least 22 people were killed and 50 others injured in a serious explosion at the airport in the Yemeni city of Aden on Wednesday. The Yemeni Interior Ministry announced it in the evening. The incident took place shortly after the landing of a Saudi Arabian plane with the new Yemeni government on board.
In addition to the people who wanted to receive those who arrived, the injured were also airport personnel. According to the organization, two employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen were also killed. Three more were seriously injured, one remains missing.
The background to the explosion, which according to eyewitnesses was accompanied by several shots, and the exact extent of the damage was initially unclear. The head of government and the other members of the cabinet are safe and sound, assured Information Minister Muammar al-Eryani. It was a “cowardly terrorist attack by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia,” he wrote on Twitter.
The UN special envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, condemned the attack on the airport and “the death and injury of many innocent civilians.” He wrote on Twitter: “This unacceptable act of violence is a tragic reminder of the importance of urgently returning Yemen to the path of peace.”
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi swore in the 24 ministers of the newly formed government in a ceremony in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. The new government is made up of representatives from both the North and the South and follows an agreement that the warring parties agreed to in Saudi Arabia in 2019. The Yemeni government’s new alliance with southern separatists is supposed to resolve their power struggle. in the country in civil war.
The country of the Arabian Peninsula is one of the poorest in the world. The civil war, in which a Saudi-led alliance has been fighting Houthi militias since 2015, has significantly increased the suffering of the people. 24 million people, about 80 percent of the population, now depend on humanitarian aid.
In response to Wednesday’s blast, President Hadi, who is in exile in Saudi Arabia, urged the government to continue doing its work from Aden. “The terrorist acts of the Iranian-backed Houthi militias and their militant terrorist groups will not prevent the legitimate government from assuming its functions in the temporary capital of Aden,” he said, according to Yemen’s official news agency Saba. In coordination with a Saudi-led military coalition, he ordered a government investigation into the blast.
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