Houthi rebels have taken control of the Yemeni capital
Abdel Malik al-Houthi, the leader of a Shi’ite rebel group in Yemen, has hailed the successful takeover of the Yemeni capital of Sana’a by his fighters after four days of intense fighting as a “successful revolution” for all citizens.
The televised speech, al-Houthi’s first since his fighters captured large parts of Sana’a on Sunday, underscored the dramatic power shift toward the rebels who have been fighting government forces for over a decade but are now guarding key sites in the nation’s capital virtually unopposed.
Yemeni president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi signed a power-sharing agreement on Sunday with the Houthi insurgents, who’re named after their leader, after they had successfully pushed deep into the nation’s capital in a fight which resulted in over 200 casualties and left them in control of the central bank and several military bases.
“These great efforts created this great success, victory, for all the people, forcing an answer to popular demands,” al-Houthi said, adding that the pact envisions price cuts and economic reforms to ease the pressure on Yemen’s poorest. “If it is implemented, this agreement will also change the government, which the people called to fall, to fail, because it stood on an unjust, non-consensual basis.”
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