The illegal Yemeni government has ceded an important oil field in Shabwa to an UAE-affiliated company, Al-Khabar Al-Yamani news website reported.
Faraan: According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, the Ministry of Oil announced the new action of this mercenary government against Yemeni resources in the government affiliated with the self-proclaimed Prime Minister of Yemen “Moin Abdul Malik”.
The agency said in a statement that a significant portion of the oil in Shabwa province in southeastern Yemen had been sold, but did not mention the buyer. Al-Khabar Al-Yamani news website reported that the fifth oil section of Shabwa has been handed over to a local company, which is said to be the most important field in the Asilan area of Shabwa province.
Al-Khabar Al-Yamani stressed that the resigned government’s Ministry of Oil has sold the field to a fictitious company based in the port of Jabal Ali in the UAE. The Yemeni news site reported that the square had actually been sold to the UAE, and that the news of the square’s sale came just a day after control of the square passed to mercenaries known as al-Amalqa (affiliated to the UAE).
Al-Khabar Al-Yamani yesterday stressed that the UAE mercenaries drove the so-called “joint forces” out of the square. These forces were affiliated with “Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar”. Al-Ahmar was formerly the deputy of ousted and fugitive Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who was backed by Saudi Arabia. In this regard, informed sources close to Al-Ahmar revealed in May last year the veracity of Saudi claims that he had handed over responsibility to “Saghir bin Aziz,” the chief of staff of forces loyal to the Saudi coalition.
On April 7, resigned and fugitive Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, while in Riyadh, ousted his deputy, Al-Ahmar, under pressure from the Saudis, and subsequently relinquished all authority to the council. He handed over the presidency under the leadership of Rashad Al-Alimi.
At the same time, there were reports that Hadi and his family were under house arrest, and even London mediated for him and his family’s release. Now, well-informed sources close to Al-Ahmar also say that he is under house arrest in Riyadh and that the Saudis have confiscated his property and even his cars in Marib. The UAE and Saudi Arabia are at loggerheads over the division of oil resources in southern Yemen, and reports suggest that Abu Dhabi intends to remove Riyadh from southern Yemen in order to facilitate looting its oil resources.
