UAE forces Outgoing President to lease Yemen’s Socotra

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An Emirati airline has launched flights between Abu Dhabi and Yemen’s Socotra Island after forced resigned Hadi, legal president ,to lease it.

Ramzy Mahrous, the deputy governor of Socotra, told al-Araby al-Jadid newspaper that Rotana Jet will start direct flights to the Yemeni Archipelago.

According to the daily, the airline announced the start of the flights from this month, offering two flights per week on Saturdays and Wednesdays.

According to the report, the UAE has directly supervised what it calls “relief” operations on Socotra Island since the start of the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

Socotra is one of the biggest Yemeni islands in the Indian Ocean and lies near the Gulf of Aden, some 350 kilometers from the Arabian Peninsula.