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Yemen govt accuses rebels of ‘ploy’ over ports pullout
DUBAI, May 11, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – A senior pro-government official accused
Yemen’s Huthi rebels of faking an announced pullout from three strategic
ports in Hodeida province on Saturday.
“The Huthis are staging a new ploy by handing over the ports of Hodeida,
Saleef and Ras Issa to themselves without any monitoring by the United
Nations and the government side,” provincial governor Al-Hasan Taher told
AFP.
The rebels and the United Nations have said the Huthis were to withdraw
unilaterally from the three aid ports on Saturday.
BSS/AFP/RY/1858 hrs