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Clashes between southern Yemeni separatists and pro-government forces in Yemen’s Abyan province killed 13 fighters, according to military sources.
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Internal fighting late Friday between nominal allies in the civil war against the Houthi rebels killed at least eight men from the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC), including two officers, and five from the Yemeni government side, they said. military sources from both sides. AFP.
The STC pulled out of talks on a power-sharing agreement with the Saudi-backed government of Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi in August.
He has allied himself with the Saudi coalition against the Houthis, but he also wants the secession of southern Yemen.
The relationship has shifted back and forth since August 2019, when the STC took control of Aden, where the government had been operating since the Yemeni capital Sanaa was taken over by the Houthis at the start of the war in 2014.
An agreement reached in Riyadh in November 2019 was designed to repair the gap between the allies.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died and millions have been displaced in the Yemen conflict, which has unleashed what the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
