Yemen's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Hadhrami said the separatist Southern Transitional Council's dramatic capture of the temporary capital Aden today is a coup.

The military establishment will strike with an iron fist all the proponents of secession, rebellion and regionalism so as to preserve the social fabric, the Sixth Military Region has warned.

The Ministry of Public Health and Population has called upon ambulances and medical staff to rush to the neighborhoods of the temporary capital Aden to collect and hospitalize the people wounded in the clashes between the government forces and separatist militiamen.

Head of Yemen's delegation to the European Union, Ambassador Mohamed Taha Mustafa, met today with Deputy Managing Director of the Middle East and North Africa at the EU Colin Scicluna

The local authority of Marib has confirmed it and all the population of the province support the government's measures to secure Aden and preserve state institutions.

The Ministry of Interior has demanded the general public to stay at home away from the sites of armed confrontations between the security forces the Southern Transitional Council's militia in Aden today.

Yemen's acting ambassador in Ethiopia Yahya al-Eryani has handed over a copy of the Yemeni government's statement on the ongoing unrest in Aden to the chief of the Middle East Department at the Ethiopian foreign ministry.

The Arab coalition intercepted a Houthi drone on Thursday evening as it was heading towards Abha in Saudi Arabia.

The local authorities in several north Yemen provinces have condemned the ongoing violence by militiamen from the separatist Southern Transitional Council in their coup attempt in the temporary capital Aden.

Mahra Local Authority has announced support to legality under President Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

Shabwa Leadership of Local Authority, Military and Security Forces has announced full support to directives of President Hadi and of government for protecting state institutions for facing aggression against state institutions in Aden after calls for attacking Presidential Palace at Ma'ashiq.

Governor of Mareb Sultan al-Irada discussed Thursday with Director of the International Organization for Migration's Office here Paul Critchley partnership between the local authority and the organization in humanitarian field.

Yemen's political parties have issued a joint condemnation of the violence acts by southern separatists in the temporary capital Aden on Thursday.

The Yemeni government said it "holds the Southern Transitional Council responsible for the armed escalation" that continued today in the temporary capital Aden.

Acting Water and Environment Minister Tawfeek al-Sharjabi and the general manager of the Egyptian Consultants Firm discussed on Thursday finalizing preparations to sign water and sanitation projects in Aden and Sayoon cities.

The Saudi Program for Development and Reconstruction of Yemen has granted four water cisterns to Hadhramout province.

Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Interior Ahmad al-Maysary has confirmed that the Presidential Protection Brigades have done their legal and state duty in facing a group of militants who attacked Ma'ashiq Palace and the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) at Cira City in Aden.

King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Activities has demanded UN and humanitarian organizations to start imminent and transparent probe into reported UN organizations' corruption in Yemen and disclosing any corrupt case or collusion with any party contradicting humanitarian aid provided by Saudi Arabia.

A child has sustained critical wounds as a result of Houthi constant indiscriminate shelli ng on his village of al-Ghayl in Aljawf in northern Yemen.

Yemen's Ambassador to Cuba Mohammad Nasher discussed Wednesday with Director of the Middle East and North Africa Department at Cuban Foreign Ministry Ector EagarzaAksiad a number of issues of common concern.