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Aidarus al-Zoubaidi, the head of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC), arrived in the United Arab Emirates Thursday after flying in from Mogadishu, according to reports cited by the Saudi-led coalition on Thursday.
His movements set off a rapid sequence of political and military repercussions across southern Yemen as tensions between the STC and Saudi Arabia sharpened.
The situation escalated Wednesday after a delegation sent by the STC to Riyadh vanished shortly after landing. STC spokesman Anwar Al-Tamimi told Xinhua that more than 50 officials and other southern…
