Outgoing President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi announced, on Thursday, that he has formed a new council to lead the country, according to state media.
“I irreversibly delegate to this presidential leadership council my full powers,” Hadi said in a televised statement early Thursday, the final day of peace talks held in Saudi Arabia’s capital.
A UN-brokered truce that began Saturday, the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, has provided a glimmer of hope for Yemen, which is regarded as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Under this truce, all land, air, and sea offensive military operations were to stop, according to the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg.
It is worth mentioning that Rashad Al-Alimi, a former interior minister and Hadi’s adviser, will lead the new council of 8 members.
In the aftermath of the Saudi-led coalition war on Yemen, which lasted 7 years, 30 million Yemenis are in dire need of assistance, not to mention that 80 percent of the population depends on aid.
Source: Agencies (editted by Al-Manar English Website)
