Over the last month, Saudi Arabia declared a two-week unilateral ceasefire with the Houthis that has been extended for another two weeks, without receiving much consideration from the insurgents.
To be sure, it does not appear that the Houthis are interested in ending military operations anytime soon. Its attempt at reining in the STC through the Riyadh Agreement has not produced the hoped-for results; at the same time, its support of Hadi has been both lukewarm and ineffective. Saudi Arabia may find that its call for a return to the Riyadh Agreement is the best option for the time being in order to re-launch an intra-Yemeni political compromise.
Imad K. Harb Director of Research and Analysis harb3imad. Related Content. Policy Analysis November 9, Policy Analysis October 29, People mobilized, armed themselves and, supported by a Saudi-led coalition, pushed the rebels back north. For many political leaders here this war has opened both an old wound and an opportunity, the push for independence from the north of Yemen and breaking the country into two parts.
We fought hard and liberated all our cities in five months. In the beginning ,this was a civil society revolution, but the Southern people back then created a military power. This power could now fight for years. So the choice now will be to either choose a long war or the peaceful solution, which is dividing Yemen into two countries. The STC's leaders and military largely rules the south of the country and areas around the city of Aden. When we say we want to get our country back, we are saying we want to go back to the old borders, when the British were in the south and the Turks were in the north.
The British drew the border. Yemen hasn't been a unified country for long, only since From the middle of the 19th century, the south was ruled by Colonial Britain and local emirs, while the north was apart of the Ottoman Empire. When both the British and Ottoman Empires receded after the First World War, local, separate authorities ran the two territories as different countries. From to , southerners fought and lost a civil war with the north, trying to regain their independence.
These days, in downtown Aden, it's not hard to find people filled with nostalgia for a former period in this city, not only before the current war, but before unity. There is no comparison. Aden was the mother of the world. Aden was the most beautiful city in the Arabian Peninsula. Now it is ruined. It's possible that, after the war, we may get independence. It's the solution for us southerners.
If we stick with unity we will have the same problems. As efforts to end the war in Yemen step up, it's not clear what a postwar Yemen would look like or whether it could even exist as a unified state. The war offered armed groups an opportunity to rule areas they themselves either came from or took. Now bringing these regions all under one government is a serious challenge. There are sort of enclaves of governance in Yemen, and different ones.
So there's some that are controlled by the Houthis, some by the government, some by other forces. And so the real question is, what happens when the war ends? How do we work that out? And I think part of the answer is probably some sort of federalist system. Conceptually, there has always been a sense of local politics. You know, all politics is local, and, in Yemen, that has long been the case.
And so I'm not sure that this idea that we are going to have one totally psychologically unified Yemen is necessarily going to be the case. Making things more complex, there are more than two sides in this war. The Houthi rebels control the capital, Sanaa, and much of the north.
To the east, in Marib, they are battling the internationally recognized Yemeni government. Marib is the government forces' last major stronghold. Technically, the separatists and the government are allied in their fight against the Houthis, but it's a relationship of convenience alone. Muddying things further is the fact that both sides are backed by separate regional partners. The Saudis back the Yemeni government forces in Marib and the United Arab Emirates supports the separatists in the south.
Of course, we have a great relationship with the Emiratis. I think they helped build the military power in the south because they were partners in the war against Houthis. And this gave us a relationship with them now and in the future. If the Yemeni government loses Marib to the Houthis, it would weaken them severely in any upcoming peace talks. It could also help the southerners in their push for independence. In an interview with the "NewsHour," senior Houthi leader Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi dodged the question of whether a Houthi takeover of Marib would hasten a split of Yemen between north and south.
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