RIYADH: Yemen's president announced on Thursday he is handing his powers to a new leadership council, in a major shake-up in the coalition battling Ansar Allah fighters as a.
RIYADH Yemen's president announced Thursday he is handing his powers to a new leadership council, in a major shake-up in the coalition battling Houthi rebels as a fragile ceasefire takes hold."I irreversibly delegate to this presidential leadership council my full powers," Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi said in a televised statement early Thursday, the final day of Yemen talks held
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Yemen's president said Thursday he is handing his powers to a new leadership council, in a major shake-up in the coalition battling Huthi rebels as a fragile ceasefire takes hold.But Huthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam dismissed the move as "a desperate attempt to rearrange the ranks of the mercenaries" fighting in Yemen, and said peace would only come once foreign forces leave.President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi made the announcement in a televised statement on the final day of Yemen talks held in the Saudi capital Riyadh.