Overview
- Secretary-general Abdulrahman Jalal al-Sebaihi announced on Yemen TV that the Southern Transitional Council and its institutions will be dismantled with immediate effect.
- Saudi military officials say Aidarous al-Zubaidi fled Yemen by boat to Somalia and was then flown to Abu Dhabi by the UAE, a claim the Emirati government has not publicly addressed.
- Earlier this week, the Presidential Leadership Council expelled al-Zubaidi and accused him of treason after he declined to fly to Riyadh for talks.
- The Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes on al-Dhale and said it targeted an Emirati arms shipment to separatists, with local sources reporting multiple deaths and injuries.
- Recent clashes have rolled back some separatist advances in Hadramout and al-Mahra, while flight suspensions stranded hundreds of tourists on the island of Socotra.