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'Scores' killed in Yemen as UAE-backed fighters seize parts of Aden
Source: The Guardian
'Scores' killed in Yemen as UAE-backed fighters seize parts of Aden
Clashes between forces backed by former Gulf allies UAE and Saudi threaten ‘new civil war within a civil war’, says thinktank
Peter Beaumont
Wed 14 Aug 2019 11.04 BST Last modified on Wed 14 Aug 2019 11.28 BST
“Scores” of people were killed and hundreds wounded during recent fighting in Yemen’s key port of Aden when southern separatists – trained by the UAE – seized key locations of the city from Saudi-backed government forces.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Aden told the Guardian that large parts of the city were also left without electricity and water during the fighting after services were targeted. Humanitarian staff warned that any further fighting between forces allied with the two coalition partners would be “devastating”.
The clashes, which pitted the forces backed by the two erstwhile Gulf allies in the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen against each other, have further complicated what is already the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe, threatening a “new civil war within a civil war”, according to the thinktank Crisis Group.
In a chilling assessment of the recent bout of hostilities, Crisis Group added: “The fighting in Aden is not the first standoff between Saudi-backed and UAE-backed forces in Yemen but, if it continues, it could be the most destructive.
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Clashes between forces backed by former Gulf allies UAE and Saudi threaten ‘new civil war within a civil war’, says thinktank
Peter Beaumont
Wed 14 Aug 2019 11.04 BST Last modified on Wed 14 Aug 2019 11.28 BST
“Scores” of people were killed and hundreds wounded during recent fighting in Yemen’s key port of Aden when southern separatists – trained by the UAE – seized key locations of the city from Saudi-backed government forces.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Aden told the Guardian that large parts of the city were also left without electricity and water during the fighting after services were targeted. Humanitarian staff warned that any further fighting between forces allied with the two coalition partners would be “devastating”.
The clashes, which pitted the forces backed by the two erstwhile Gulf allies in the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen against each other, have further complicated what is already the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe, threatening a “new civil war within a civil war”, according to the thinktank Crisis Group.
In a chilling assessment of the recent bout of hostilities, Crisis Group added: “The fighting in Aden is not the first standoff between Saudi-backed and UAE-backed forces in Yemen but, if it continues, it could be the most destructive.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/aug/14/scores-killed-in-yemen-as-uae-backed-fighters-seize-parts-of-aden