People inspect a damaged house destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike in old Sanaa city, Yemen, September 24, 2016. Eleven neighbours were also wounded when the family’s house, on the southern edge of the mountain city, was hit during a night of intense air strikes, witnesses said.
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Yemen’s exiled government on Sunday appointed a new central bank governor and said it would move the bank’s headquarters from the rebel-held capital Sanaa to the southern port city of Aden, the main foothold of fighters loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Riyadh faces mounting worldwide scrutiny over civilian casualties in its Yemen air campaign.
UN-sponsored talks to end the fighting that has killed more than 10,000 people collapsed in failure last month and the Houthi movement and allied Yemeni forces resumed shelling into neighbouring Saudi Arabia. Since the coalition intervened in March previous year, government forces have managed to push rebels out of five southern provinces, including the port city of Aden.
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“Sadly, the indifference of the global community and continued sale of all kinds of arms to Saudi Arabia have emboldened this regime in its attacks on the oppressed and defenceless people of Yemen”, foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said, quoted by state broadcaster IRIB. More than 30 civilians have been killed in rebel bombardments of the Najran area since the coalition intervention began. United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon condemned the strikes on Hodeida, calling for “urgent measures to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure”.
