Overview
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged maximum restraint and cautioned that renewed fighting could spill over into the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa.
- The Southern Transitional Council says its forces advanced in Hadhramaut and Al Mahra and claim a de facto presence across the former South Yemen, with recent movement into Abyan.
- The group frames its operations as counter-smuggling and counterterrorism measures intended to fill a security vacuum left by rival forces.
- STC representatives publicly appealed for U.S. military, diplomatic and economic partnership against the Houthis and other threats, while inviting American investment in southern sectors.
- Yemen’s internationally recognized government and Saudi negotiators pressed the STC to pull back, as the UN also condemned Houthi authorities for detaining 59 UN staff and referring three to a special court.