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Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdallah Saleh on Saturday appointed a council set up to govern Yemen.
The announcement came as the United Nations prepared to suspend peace talks in Kuwait.
The alliance announced the creation of the council on July 28.
The council includes 10 members, equally divided between the Houthis and Saleh’s party.
They include Salah al-Sammad, head of the Houthis’ political wing Ansarullah, and Sadek Abu Ras, deputy head of Saleh’s party, the General People’s Congress.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed is expected to announce the suspension of the talks on Saturday in Kuwait, in the presence of Yemen’s national and ex-regime delegations.
The UN envoy told Kuwaiti TV on Thursday that he hopes to relaunch talks in the future.
The talks began on April 21 but broke down last month.
Yemen has been in chaos since March of last year.
Neighboring Saudi Arabia formed a coalition and launched a campaign of air strikes in March 2015 to reinstate ally Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi after he resigned.
About 10,000 people have been killed and over 16,000 injured since Riyadh launched the airstrikes. The Saudi aggression has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s facilities and infrastructure.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
