{"id":47847,"date":"2019-10-26T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T05:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47847"},"modified":"2019-10-26T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T06:07:43","slug":"yemeni-govt-southern-authority-reach-power-sharing-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47847","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni Gov&#8217;t, Southern Authority Reach Power-Sharing Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ADEN, Oct 26 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; The Saudi-backed Yemeni government, reached a power-sharing deal with the Southern Transitional Council (STC), following several weeks of indirect talks between the two sides, in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah, local sources said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Yemeni government source said, &#8220;A deal, which includes forming a power-sharing government, has been reached between the government and the STC, under the auspices of Saudi Arabia.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, &#8220;Representatives of the two sides have already signed the first draft of the deal, that determined a specific time to form a new government, composed of 24 members equally.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s President, Abdu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, will nominate the 24 members of the new government equally between the southern and northern provinces of the war-torn Arab country, the Yemeni source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The source confirmed that the Saudi-sponsored deal will be signed officially with the presence of President Hadi and the head of the Aden-based STC, Aidarous Zubaidi, in two days in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s capital of Riyadh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another government source said, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition will form a joint committee to oversee and follow up on the implementation of the Riyadh deal between the two sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An official of the STC in Aden confirmed that, &#8220;the southern leaders began a new page of cooperation and partnership with Saudi Arabia and the regional powers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Following the Riyadh deal, the tense situation in southern Yemen will cease and both sides will work together on-ground,&#8221; the source said.&#8211; NNN-SABA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADEN, Oct 26 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; The Saudi-backed Yemeni government, reached a power-sharing deal with the Southern Transitional Council (STC), following several weeks of indirect talks between the two sides, in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah, local sources said. A Yemeni government source said, &#8220;A deal, which includes forming a power-sharing government, has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}