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Publish date9 Oct 2014 - 8:18
Story Code : 170923

Yemeni premier resigns amid Houthi pressure

The newly-elected Yemeni premier has resigned amid protests against his appointment to the post by the president.
Yemeni premier resigns amid Houthi pressure


On Wednesday, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi accepted the resignation by Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak after Houthi Shia protesters slammed the government’s choice.

Mubarak made the decision "in a bid to preserve the national unity and protect the country from divisions," he said in a letter to Hadi, in which he requested “to be relieved" of forming a new government.

Earlier in the day, Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionaries, severely criticized Hadi’s Tuesday decision to appoint Mubarak.

The Ansarullah activists, who played a key role in the ouster of former dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, have been staging demonstrations in the capital for more than a month, demanding resignation of the government over what they call its corruption and marginalization of the Shia community in Yemen.

On September 21, Ansarullah fighters took over Sana’a, following weeklong clashes across the country.

A UN-backed ceasefire deal, which was subsequently inked, called for the withdrawal of the revolutionaries from the capital once a neutral prime minister was picked.

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