Hundreds more Sudanese troops arrive in Yemen

Iran-backed rebels retook positions in southern Yemen in a bid to advance on second city Aden, military sources said Sunday as a landmine blast killed 16 soldiers east of Sanaa. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to talk to journalists.

The Saudi-led coalition is struggling to organise and co-ordinate its Yemeni proxies, which is prompting infighting but also contributing to a growing jihadist presence and activity in Aden and elsewhere.

Yemen’s loyalist forces, backed by Saudi-led coalition strikes, supplies and troops, pushed the rebels out of Aden as part of an operation launched in July to take back southern territories lost to renegade forces.

Forces fighting in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi “were forced to withdraw from the city”, one of the sources said.

Mr Al Yaseri said the coalition would be sending more vehicles, and possibly troops, in preparation for a “decisive battle” for Taez.

Military sources in Aden told several Yemeni media outlets that a Sudanese force consisting of 400 officers and soldiers has arrived Monday morning at Al-Zait seaport in Al-Braiga.

On Saturday evening, Hadi sent his condolences to al-Jimai’s sons, according to Yemen’s official Saba news agency.

Military sources confirmed that the Fourth Military Region headquarters in Aden is now at the Lahj Anad base from where they will head to Taiz.

In August Sudanese officials announced that after they joined the coalition, Saudi Arabia deposited $1bn in the central bank.

Haitham Abdulmalik, a technician at the hospital, said the hospital was under the control of the popular resistance, whose fighters are treated there.

“We want to go to negotiations in Geneva”, Riad Yassin told AFP on the sidelines of an Arab League meeting in the Saudi capital.