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WORLD NEWS 9
Monday 14 September 2015

Yemen’s exiled president backs out of talks with rebels

since March. try in the grip of a humani- Also Sunday, a delegation
Yemen’s conflict pits an tarian crisis and on the brink of anti-rebel militia lead-
array of forces against the of famine. ers from Aden traveled
Houthi rebels, who are al- Several previous attempts to Saudi Arabia and the
lied with security forces to get the parties to end United Arab Emirates at the
loyal to former President Ali the conflict have failed, request of the Hadi govern-
Abdullah Saleh. The con- and it has proven nearly ment to meet Yemeni and
flict has killed more than impossible to arrange a hu- coalition officials, said anti-
4,000 people, leaving the manitarian pause to deliver rebel militia leader Adeeb
Arab world’s poorest coun- desperately needed aid. al-Eisy.q

A man, displays a bomb fragment from the rubble of a house
destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen’s
internationally recognized president will not participate in U.N.-
brokered talks later this week with Shiite rebels who control the
capital and much of the country’s north, his office said Sunday.

(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

AHMED AL-HAJ The Associated Press.
Associated Press More than 200 Saudi, Emir-
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Ye- ati and Yemeni troops have
men’s internationally rec- come to Aden in the past
ognized president will not two weeks to help secure
participate in U.N.-bro- the city and pave the way
kered talks later this week for the government’s long-
with Shiite rebels who con- planned return, according
trol the capital and much to Aden’s governor Nayef
of the country’s north, his al-Bakri and pro-govern-
office said Sunday. ment security officials.
The statement said there Many Yemeni troops who
would be no talks with the were sent for training in
rebels, known as Houthis, Saudi Arabia and the Unit-
unless they accept a U.N. ed Arab Emirates are re-
resolution that obliges turning to fight, pro-govern-
them to withdraw from ar- ment officials said, reflect-
eas they seized and surren- ing the administration’s
der weapons taken from confidence that it can
state institutions. hold onto the key city that
The announcement came has been bitterly contested
as President Abed Rabbo by the various sides in the
Mansour Hadi’s govern- conflict. Parts of Aden are
ment, currently in self-exile currently controlled by al-
in Saudi Arabia, is making Qaida.
preparations to return to Hadi fled Yemen earlier
the port city of Aden at the this year for Saudi Arabia,
end of this month follow- which is leading a U.S.-
ing the Muslim Eid al-Adha backed coalition that has
holiday, two senior Yemeni been striking the Iran-sup-
government officials told ported rebels from the air