UAE holds money in Aden port, as Yemenis on average of famine

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UAE forces who are controlling the port of Aden have confiscated 170 billion riyals ($679 million) which are to be used to pay the salaries of state employees, video footage of Yemen’s Interior Minister Ahmed Al-Misri has revealed.

“The money is being held in the port of Aden on the order of an [unnamed] Emirati officer,” Al-Misri said.

“My personal money cannot be taken out, I am detained for no reason, only by the temperament of an Emirati officer,” Al-Misri said.

The funds, he explained, are to be used to pay the salaries of civil servants. They had been printed in Saudi Arabia with coordination by the International Monetary Fund and have been held by UAE forces for 28 days.

The Yemeni government has been suffering for nearly a year in a crisis to pay the salaries of 67,000 employees.

The UAE took control of Aden under the pretext of confronting the so-called Houthis , part of Yemeni joint forces.

Aden city, which was occupied by UK but now under the control of UAE, and the rest of the southern cities witnessed an insecurity situation that increased the assassinations of imams of mosques and security and military leaderships

It also witnesses a security fiasco that escalated with killings, looting issues , in addition to others that never happened before.

In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its regional allies — mainly the united Arab Emirates and Jordan — started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people later, the war has yielded little to that effect.