Messages from Shabwa to confront the Brotherhood-backed Houthi expansion
English - Thursday 11 November 2021 الساعة 06:02 pm
Shabwa, NewsYemen, private:
The head of the local leadership of the Southern Transitional Council in Shabwa Governorate, Brigadier General Ali Ahmed al-Jabwani, confirmed that the next stage will witness major changes for the benefit of the people of the province.
Al-Jabwani’s speech came, during a speech he delivered while inspecting with leaders from the transitional governorate, on Wednesday morning, the camp of the First Southern Resistance Brigade in the Al-Talh District, west of Shabwa.
He was received by Colonel Hassan Rabie Marouf Al-Buraiki, the commander of the brigade and a number of officers and individuals in the brigade.
Al-Jabwani attacked in his entirety the authority of the Brotherhood's province, and its continuation of its war against the people of the province, stressing that this "will not be long, and that the next stage will witness major changes for the benefit of the province and its people," according to him.
This visit is the first of its kind that confirms the existence of military preparations led by the Transitional Council, with the support of the coalition, to prevent the expansion of the Houthi militia in the governorate after its control in late September of the three Bayhan districts without a fight with the complicity of the Brotherhood's governorate authority and its affiliated forces.
This blatant Brotherhood complicity sparked a wide social movement in Shabwa governorate weeks ago, to prevent the expansion of the Houthi militia inside the governorate and move towards the liberation of the three Bayhan districts.
This movement is evidenced by the tribal delegations that flock to the house of the prominent tribal sheikh Awad Muhammad bin Al-Wazir in his home in the city of Nisab since his return from abroad earlier this week, in response to his invitation to hold a public meeting for the people of Shabwa to study the situation in the governorate.
It was remarkable the massive procession in which the Shabwa transitional president, Brigadier General Ali Ahmed al-Jabwani, arrived on Wednesday (yesterday), to the minister's house, accompanied by a number of leaders and cadres of the Transitional Council in the governorate, praising the minister's return under exceptional complicated circumstances and the dangers that Shabwa governorate suffers from, especially from the Houthi militia.
This movement comes with the escalation of warnings by military leaders in the governorate, who recently appeared in video recordings, warning against facilitating the Brotherhood’s authority to fall more areas into the hands of the Houthi militia, including the governorate’s capital, Ataq.
These dangers emerged clearly after the Houthi militia took control of Aqabat al-Tufail, in the Lower Markha district, without a fight, after the withdrawal of forces loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood, in a scene similar to what happened in Bayhan.
According to tribal sources, the handover of Aqabat al-Tufail opens the way for the Houthi militia towards the Nisab district, which is only 50 km away, while the district center is not more than 30 km away from the capital, Ataq.
The sources believe that these risks are what give importance to the movement led by Sheikh Awad al-Wazir in the Nisab district, which is more like a line of defense for the city of Ataq in the face of the expansion of the Houthi militia, which may thwart any conspiracy or collusion between the militias and the Brotherhood’s authority, according to the sources.
The sources pointed out what the "Nisab" represents as a source of concern and fear for the Brotherhood's authority, noting the violent confrontations that took place in the city of Nisab in June of last year between the Brotherhood's militias and armed men from the directorate who managed within hours to completely control it, and the Brotherhood militias were only able to restore it after bringing in military forces from outside the province, and after violent confrontations took place for two days.
