According to a latest report, at least ten people have died and dozens more injured. Members of the cabinet, formed in mid-December, were taken to safety in the presidential palace.
Le Monde
Au at least ten people were killed and dozens more injured in Yemen on Wednesday, December 30, in an attack at Aden airport shortly after the arrival of a plane carrying members of the new unity government , according to the Associated Press (AP) and a local security service source with Reuters.
Loud explosions and gunshots were heard at the airport shortly after the arrival of the plane from Saudi Arabia, according to witnesses. Saudi state television El-Ekhbaria broadcast footage of destroyed vehicles, shattered glass and columns of white smoke. According to a Yemeni security service source told Reuters, three mortar shells exploded in the airport lobby.
New unity government against Houthi rebels
Yemeni new unity government bringing together pro-power ministers and separatists South was formed on December 18 under the auspices of Saudi Arabia.
These two camps, who fought for power in the south of the country, have remained in principle allies for six years against the Houthi rebels, supported by Iran and who have seized a large part of the north of the country, including the capital Sanaa. But Aden, a southern port city, has been plagued by violence for several years due to a rift between the two parties.
The new union cabinet brings together the government of President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and southern separatists. Its members, including Prime Minister Maïn Abdelmalek Saïd, as well as Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Mohammad Al-Jaber, have been safely transferred to the presidential palace, witnesses and Saudi media have said. “We are fine,” Ahmed bin Mubarak, the new foreign minister, wrote in a Twitter message.