Ahlul Bayt News Agency - SANAA, Yemen - Yemeni ousted and notorious president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi on Monday appointed a new governor of the war-torn country’s southern Aden province three days after his thugs retook.
In a presidential decree issued from Riyadh, Hadi appointed Nayef al-Bakri, a former deputy governor of the province, to the post of governor, according to Yemen’s official news agency.
Al-Bakri had been one of the government officials who did not flee Aden when it was taken by Houthi fighters earlier this year.
On Friday, Khaled Bahah, Yemen’s fugitive vice-president and prime minister, claimed that Aden had been “liberated” from the Houthis and allied forces loyal to ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Clashes, however, remain ongoing on the outskirts of the city, which is considered the country’s commercial and economic capital.
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