is carrying, uncritically, this AFP news story about Yemen's Southern City, Aden, once the glory of Yemen, now, alas, bombed into ruins by Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
AFP (Agence France-Presse) is a French government publication and has the third longest circulation in the world. It is generally reliable. Today's report on Yemen follows Saud propaganda to some extent, as does The New York Times. The reach of the Saud propaganda apparatus is great an unfortunate.
Nevertheless, the article is illustrative of the weakness and unpopularity of the "president" of Yemen, Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who was run out of Yemen by popular protests, hid out in Saudi Arabia, resigned his presidency, reneged on his resignation under pressure from his host and patron, the Saudi, and who now is living in Aden, pretending to be president of the whole country.
Aden is reasonably safe for Hadi to hide in because Saudi warships patrol the Aden harbor and United Arab Emirates' mercenaries patrol the city streets on his behalf.
Hadi could not live safely anywhere else in Yemen because he is despised by Yemeni.
Meanwhile former Yemen president, Ali Abdullah
Saleh --whom Saudi Arabia and the United States allowed to leave the country with an estimated 66 billion dollars in Yemen's money, is back, free to roam the country with his army of loyal supporters, an vigorously supporting the Houthi revolution. Saleh's support is what the West's press is calling Iran's support. Shameful. ResponsibleWestern newspapers know barter than they report.
From Agence France-Presse
Yemen police kill one in Aden protests over power cuts
AFP on May 22, 2016, 9:22 pm
Yemen police kill one in Aden protests over power cuts
Yemen police kill one in Aden protests over power cuts
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"A resident was killed and others were wounded" by police gunfire during the late Saturday protests, said the official who requested anonymity.
Dozens of people took to the streets in Aden's districts of Crater, Mualla, and Mansura to protest against the lack of power supply as temperatures soared to almost 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the coastal city.
Residents blocked roads, erected barricades and set tyres ablaze, prompting police intervention, witnesses said.
Most of the city's electricity stallations were destroyed during fighting between pro-government forces and Iran-backed rebels last year. [There is no citation for the Irn claim, and it is false. See
Saud falsely blame Iran for Yemen
in this blog.]
The rebels who seized Sanaa in September 2014, expanded south and entered Aden in March last year, but loyalists backed by a Saudi-led coalition pushed them out in July. [Grossly oversimplified. Per Wikipedia:
The Battle of Aden was a battle for the control of Aden, Yemen, between the Houthis and Yemen Army units and militias loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh on one side, and local residents, Southern Movement militias, and Yemen Army units and militias loyal to Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi on the other side.]
President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's government has so far failed to restore security and power supply in the city that it declared a temporary capital.
"Our life is a real disaster," said 20-year-old Aden resident Mohammed Abdulhakim. "We are unable to sleep" because of the heat.
"The war has destroyed everything and the aid arriving in Aden is not enough to restore power," he complained.
The United Arab Emirates, which plays a key role in the pro-government coalition, has sent generators to Aden in recent months to help restore power supply in the city.
But governor of the nearby Abyan province, Elkhedr al-Saidi, said earlier this month that "weak generating capability" in Aden's power plants is affecting supplies in the southern provinces of Abyan, Daleh and Lahj.
Genocide is no too strong a term.
AFP knows the facts, and its quoting Mr. bin Dagher is consistent with Saudi propaganda. For a wonderfully revealing instance Saudi duplicity see an interview with the Saud ambassador to the United Nations:
If you are fond of the Theater of the Absurd,
you'll love this interview --
if so many lives weren't at stake.
Fighting has killed more than 6,400 people, displaced about 2.8 million and left 82 percent of Yemen's population in need of aid, the United Nations says.
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