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According to Information Minister Muammar Al-Erjani, the head of government and his members are doing well. “We assure our people that all members of the cabinet are safe,” he wrote on Twitter. It was a “cowardly terrorist attack by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia.”
UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths wrote on Twitter: “I condemn the attack on the Aden airport upon the arrival of the cabinet and the death and injury of many innocent civilians.” His condolences to all the mourners of the victims. Griffiths wanted the Kraft cabinet to “face the difficult tasks.” “This unacceptable act of violence is a tragic reminder of the importance of urgently returning Yemen to the path of peace.”
The explosion, which, according to eyewitnesses, was accompanied by several shots, broke windows; Several people were injured, as seen on social media. The background and exact extent of the incident were initially unclear.
President Abed Rabbo Mansur 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. According to a Yemeni government source, the Riyadh machine landed in the middle of an “intense security operation” in Aden.
The country of the Arabian Peninsula is one of the poorest countries in the world. The civil war, in which a Saudi-led alliance has been fighting the Houthis since 2015, has significantly increased the suffering of the people. 24 million people, about 80 percent of the population, now depend on some form of humanitarian aid.