ADEN
\nAhmed Awad bin Mubarak, prime minister of Yemen\u2019s internationally recognised government, said in a statement on Saturday he had resigned after facing \u201clots of difficulties\u201d including being unable to reshuffle the government.
\nHis exit follows conflict with Rashad Al-Alimi, head of Yemen\u2019s presidential council, over his powers after the latter refused Mubarak\u2019s request to dismiss 12 of the government\u2019s ministers, six government sources told Reuters.
\nThey said Finance Minister Salem Saleh Bin Braik was set to be appointed the new prime minister.
\nMubarak was appointed premier in February 2024 after serving as foreign minister. He came to prominence in 2015 when he was kidnapped by Iran-aligned Houthi militia while serving as Yemen\u2019s presidential chief of staff during the Houthis\u2019 conflict with then-President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
\nMubarak\u2019s resignation, which he announced in a statement, came with the U.S. intensifying airstrikes to take out Houthi military assets and deter them from targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
\nThe deadly strikes on the group since March have been the biggest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January.
\nYemen has been embroiled in civil war for over a decade. The Houthis seized the capital Sanaa in 2014 and ousted the recognised government, forcing it to relocate to the southern port of Aden. The Houthis now hold most of the country including its main population centres in the north and west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ADEN Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, prime minister of Yemen\u2019s internationally recognised government, said in a statement on Saturday he had resigned after facing \u201clots of difficulties\u201d including being unable to reshuffle the government. His exit follows conflict with Rashad Al-Alimi, head of Yemen\u2019s presidential council, over his powers after the latter refused Mubarak\u2019s request to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-476291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n