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Riyadh wants Yemen weak to keep it under full control: Activist

Monday, 29 January 2018 3:33 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 29 January 2018 7:11 PM ]

Fighters from Yemen's southern separatist movement gather in a street of the country's second city of Aden on January 28, 2018, during clashes with forces loyal to the Saudi-backed president. (Photo by AFP)

An activist believes Saudi Arabia does not want stability in Yemen and is seeking to keep the impoverished Arab nation “weak” in order to control it.

“What they [the Saudis] are doing now in the south is just a British tactic which is ‘divide and conquer’ because they want the south, especially Aden to stay weak because if there is any progress in Aden, this will affect Dubai port and other ports in the Persian Gulf. So the Saudi-led coalition and the United Arab Emirates want to keep Yemeni people in the south fighting each other and at the same time the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia work really well together in fighting the Houthis in other areas, so they want to control Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Socotra island and the coast of Yemen because this was one of the main goals of the war in Yemen,” Hussain al-Bukhaiti told Press TV in an interview on Monday.