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Yemeni separatists, government forces clash in the south

By AHMED AL-HAJ separatists.
Associated Press U.N. envoy to Yemen Mar-
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — tin Griffiths said Tuesday he
Clashes between a Yemeni was alarmed by the vio-
separatist militia, backed lence in Aden and Abyan.
by the United Arab Emir- “I condemn the unaccept-
ates, and forces loyal to able efforts by the Southern
the internationally recog- Transitional Council to take
nized government killed control of state institutions,”
at least three civilians and he said. Though a key
wounded nine in southern member of the coalition,
Abyan province on Tues- the UAE never threw its full
day, security officials and support behind Hadi be-
local residents said. cause of his ties to Yemen’s
The fighting between the Muslim Brotherhood group,
two sides — ostensible al- a pan-Arab movement
lies in the Saudi-led co- that many Arab countries,
alition that for years has including the UAE, consider
been fighting Yemen’s a terrorist organization.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels, After the separatists took
based in the north — has control of Aden, the Saudi-
added another layer to In this Friday Aug. 9, 2019 frame grab from video, Southern Transitional Council separatist fighters led coalition ordered an
line up to storm the presidential palace in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen.
the complex civil war in the Associated Press immediate cease-fire and
Arab world’s most impover- threatened to bomb them
ished country. on condition of anonym- Hadi’s government since Yemen’s information min- if they didn’t return to posi-
After a 10-hour battle, the ity because they weren’t the Houthis captured Sa- ister, Moammer al-Iryani, tions they held before the
Security Belt militia, which authorized to talk to the naa, Yemen’s capital, and earlier urged the Saudi-led fighting.
is trained and financed by media, while the residents much of the country’s north coalition to pressure the The coalition also called for
the UAE, overran a military spoke anonymously, fear- in 2014. militia to withdraw their both the separatists and
camp belonging to the ing reprisal. Hadi’s government said in forces from Zinjibar. Deputy Hadi’s government to at-
government’s special forc- The separatists last week a statement Tuesday that Foreign Minister Moham- tend reconciliation talks in
es in the provincial capi- took over the port city of it blamed the UAE for the med Abdullah al-Hadrami Saudi Arabia, without set-
tal, Zinjibar, and deployed Aden, to the west of Zinji- “armed rebellion” of the called for an “immediate ting a date. The separatist
across much of the city, bar. Aden has functioned separatists, according to and complete halt of mili- militia said it would attend
said the officials and resi- as the seat of President the state-run SABA news tary and financial support” but did not withdraw from
dents. The officials spoke Abed Rabbo Manour agency. by the UAE to the Yemeni Aden.q

Bosnia’s bid to form a new govt fails over divisions on NATO

By ELDAR EMRIC flict between the West
Associated Press and Russia over the future
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herze- of the Balkans. While the
govina (AP) — The three West wishes to see the still-
members of Bosnia’s multi- volatile region that went
ethnic presidency failed through a bloody war
on Tuesday to break a in the 1990s reform and
10-month deadlock on eventually join the EU and
forming a new govern- NATO, Russia has used its
ment amid deep divisions historic ties with Serbs to
over the Balkan country’s undermine this idea.
bid to join NATO. After another Balkan his-
A meeting between Bos- torical ally, Montenegro,
nia’s Muslim, Serb and Cro- turned its back on Moscow
at leaders ended without and joined NATO in 2017,
an agreement because Serbia and the Serb-run
the Bosnian Serb member Republika Srpska in Bosnia
of the presidency, Milo- are the only allies of the
rad Dodik, was against a Members of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, Muslim member Sefik Dzaferovic, left, Croat member Kremlin in the region.
package that would also Zeljko Komsic and Bosnian Serb member Milorad Dodik, right, speak during a meeting in Sarajevo, Disagreements between
include adopting a plan Bosnia, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. Bosnia’s Serbs and the oth-
that would move Bosnia Associated Press er two ethnic groups over
closer to NATO member- to make to eventually be- porting the Kremlin’s bid to halt Bosnia’s road toward Bosnia’s future relations
ship. come a member. prevent NATO expansion NATO.” with NATO could plunge
“As long as I’m a member “We were loud and clear, in the Balkans. “No one has the right to do the country even deeper
(of the presidency) there we will not vote for ANP The Muslim member of that,” Dzaferovic said, call- into crisis and further exac-
will be no vote on ANP,” and the next time they the presidency, Sefik ing Dodik’s actions “illegiti- erbate ethnic divisions.
Dodik said, referring to put it on the agenda we Dzaferovic, said that the mate” and contrary to the Another meeting of the
NATO’s proposed Annual will again not vote for it,” “cause of all problems that rule of law. presidency to discuss a
National Plan that lists a set said Dodik, a staunch pro- we face today are unilat- The divisions within Bosnia new government has not
of reforms a country has Russian who has been sup- eral attempts (by Dodik) to reflect a mounting con- been set.q