Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad al-Hadhrami received today the credentials of the newly appointed representative of the World Food Program (WFP) in Yemen Laurent Bukera.

Minister of Defense General Lieutenant Mohammad al-Maqdashi directed all military units in Aden, Abyan and Shabwa to stop fighting.

Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik said the government will allocate a special finance pack for the development of the eastern Yemen Shabwah province. He made the remarks today a day after he arrived in the province where the armed forces had just taken full full control after driving out the invading paramilitary forces of the separatist Southern Transitional Council.

Deputy Governor of Mare bAbd-Rabo Miftah presided over Monday a meeting for the Office of the Coordinating Humanitarian Office's (OCHA) Unit and some international and local organizations in the province discussingwater and sanitation projects within humanitarian assistances to displaced people and hosting community here.

Government engineers have started repairing the power grid of Ataq the provincial capital of Shabwa that went under a fierce attack by separatist paramilitary militias over the past two days.

Three Saudi-funded emergency water projects have been wrapped up in Yemen's eastern province of Mahrah.

The governor of Shabwa Mohammed bin Edeiw said the armed forces and people have thwarted a coup by invading separatists in the province, a backup for the Houthi coup in north Yemen.

King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Activities (KSrelief) held Sunday a workshop here on evaluating and monitoring humanitarian work and investigating people access to aid within "Access to Yemen" initiative.

The Arab Coalition's defenses have downed Houthi unmanned drones heading toward Khamees Musheit and Jazan cities in Saudi Arabia to attack civilian facilities.

Yemen's Cabinet directed state institutions to press on servicing the public, albeit in exceptional circumstances resulting from the takeover of the temporary capital Aden on August 11 southern armed separatists.

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad al-Hadhrami discussed Thursday with Chinese Ambassador to Yemen Kang Yong peace process and situation developments in provinces of Aden and Abyan over UAE-backed Transitional Council's armed rebellion.

The acting Yemeni ambassador toAddis AbabaYahya al-Eryani has briefed the Director of Middle East at the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry on the rebellion and seizure of the temporary capital Adenby the armed separatists from the Southern Transitional Council.

The presidency of the parliament has affirmed its support to the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in the face of the recent rebellion by the UAE-backed separatists in south Yemen.

Charge D'Affairs at Yemen's Embassy here Aber Makkawi handed over Wednesday the Director of the Middle East and North African Department at Bulgarian Foreign Ministry Dimitra Dimitrov a copy of a release issued Tuesday by the Council of Ministers on Southern Transition Council's armed rebellion against state institutions in Aden.

The Council of Ministers said it holds the UAE fully responsible for the armed rebellion ofthe SouthernTransitional Council (STC) and its aftermaths.

Yemen's government has blamed the United Arab Emirates, an Arab Coalition member, for veering off from the course of supporting the Yemeni government to supporting southern armed separatists who captured the country's temporary capital, Aden, on August 11 and Abyan province to its north today.

The Yemen Journalists Union have expressed concerns over the violations against journalists and press institutions by the separatist militia that seized the temporary capital Aden several days ago.

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad al-Hadhrami has renewed government's welcome to Saudi call for holding a meeting on tackling Southern Transitional Council's (STC) rebellion against state institutions in the transitional capital Aden.

The governor of Marib Sheikh Sultan al-Eradah has renewed allegiance to Yemen's legitimate government and to the government's pursuit of retaking the state back from the coupist militias.

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.