Bahah is the most senior official of the internationally recognized Yemeni government to have visited Aden since the strategically important southern port city was recaptured more than two weeks ago.
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Yemeni Vice-President and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah arrived at Aden’s global airport on Saturday accompanied by several government ministers, an airport source has told Anadolu Agency.
Sources close to Mr. Bahah said the Vice President wanted to bolster efforts to restore normal life to the city, where President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi had fled after the Houthis seized control of the government in Sana’a earlier this year and confined him to his residence under virtual house arrest.
The scarcity of help funding, compounded by a months-long sea and air blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition, has left a big majority of Yemen’s 26 million individuals with shortages of meals, gasoline and different primary provides, O’Brien stated.
The United Nations say the war has killed almost 4,000 people, half of them civilians, while 80 percent of the 21 million population is in need of aid and protection.
The coalition declared a humanitarian ceasefire on Monday but it lasted for only few hours.
Yemen depends on imports for most of its supplies, including food, medicine and fuel.
In a separate incident, nine soldiers were killed and 30 wounded in a vehicle bombing at an army base in southern Hadramout province, local officials said.
Ground fighting between armed rebels and government-allied forces also clashed in the city of Taiz rages on, killing at least 19 and wounding 28 from both sides, rebel and militia fighters and medical officials said.
Meanwhile, witnesses reported that coalition warplanes also bombarded the province of Mareb east of Sanaa and the rebel stronghold of Saada in the north on Saturday.
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Fractious Yemen has remained in turmoil since last September, when the Houthis overran capital Sanaa, from which they have since extended their influence southwards to other parts of the country.
