Rebels form 'supreme council' to run war-torn Yemen

July 29, 2016 02:08

Shiite rebels and their allies formed a 10-member "supreme council" to run Yemen, in what the government described as a blow to the already stalled UN-brokered peace talks.

The Shiite Huthi rebels and the General People's Congress of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh have agreed to "form a supreme political council of 10 members", according to a statement carried by a rebel-run news agency.

It did not name the council's members.

"The aim is to unify efforts to confront the aggression by Saudi Arabia and its allies," the statement said in reference to the Riyadh-led Arab coalition that launched a military campaign against the rebels in March last year in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

The job of the council will be to "manage state affairs politically, militarily, economically, administratively, socially and in security".

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