The mobilisation committee of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) has on Tuesday set the date for a promised major uprising against the Riyadh-formed Presidential Council in Aden, southern Yemen.
The committee confirmed that the itinerary of the crowds will be from Zakou’s intersection in the Crater area to the gate of Ma’ashiq Palace, where members of the Presidential Council and the government reside, and is set to take place next Saturday afternoon, accompanied by civil disobedience in the city.
The committee pointed out that the uprising comes as a protest against the non-payment of salaries, the collapse of basic services, including electricity, health and water, and the rise of prices in Aden.
This comes after the STC committee gave the Council ten days to improve the currency rate and electricity service and to pay employee salaries in early June.
The STC is pushing the masses to besiege the Presidential Council and the Prime Minister, Maeen Abdul-Malik Saeed inside the Ma’ashiq Palace, and to expel them from Aden.
