Yemeni council cracking down on Brotherhood in Hadhramaut

Since taking office in April 2022, the Yemeni Leadership Council, headed by Rashad al-Alimi, has been working to tighten the noose around Islah Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen.

The party caused widespread corruption over the past years and helped the Houthi coup militia control large swaths of Yemen that used to be controlled by the legitimate Yemeni government.

The Yemeni Leadership Council has restructured all state institutions, including by kicking out senior officials loyal to the Brotherhood.

On December 7, the council substituted some military commanders affiliated to the Brotherhood in the southern province of Hadhramaut with others.

Yemeni media reported, meanwhile, that the leaders overthrown by the Yemeni president were the most prominent arms of the Brotherhood's Islah Party.

They abused their military influence in Hadhramaut which witnessed some demonstrations.

These demonstrators were led by some Brotherhood elements who tried to ignite discord among the people of the province, on the one hand, and mobilize them into rejecting the decisions of the council, on the other.

Brotherhood-Houthi coordination

Informed sources revealed recently that the Brotherhood coordinates with the Houthis to mitigate the effects of blows received by Brotherhood elements at the hands of the Southern Giants Forces.

The forces, the same sources said, succeeded in expelling Brotherhood elements from the provinces of Shabwa and Abyan at commands by the Yemeni Presidential Council.

The council is expected to take other decisions against the Brotherhood in the coming period on the road to regaining control of the Yemeni state.

The same sources also expect the council to unite efforts to end the Houthi coup and liberate areas captured by the coup forces.

This comes in parallel with the legitimate Yemeni government's moves to implement the decision to classify the Houthis as a "terrorist group".

This comes against the background of the group's tendency to escalate, after refusing to renew a United Nations-sponsored truce that came to an end in October.

The Houthis threaten to target oil facilities in the member states of the Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy, if they do not put pressure on the legitimate Yemeni government to accept their demand for paying the salaries of all the group's employees from oil revenues in areas under the government's control.