Yemen appoints Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak as prime minister
Al Jazeera
Bin Mubarak replaces Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed amid rising tensions over Houthis’ Red Sea attacks, US and UK reprisals.
Yemen’s internationally recognised government has named Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak as the new prime minister in a surprise appointment.
Bin Mubarak replaces Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed at a time of rising tensions in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country after a spate of Red Sea attacks by Houthi rebels on ships that have prompted retaliatory strikes by the United States and the UK.
A decree issued on Monday by Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council and carried by the official Saba news agency announced bin Mubarak’s appointment as premier and assigned the outgoing prime minister to the post of presidential adviser.
It did not give a reason for the move.
Bin Mubarak, Yemen’s former ambassador to the US, is widely seen as a staunch adversary of the Houthi rebels.
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