established in may 2017, the Southern Transitional Council (stc) emerged as one of the most conspicuous actors in Yemen’s civil war. The conflict entered its most recent phase in March 2015, following a military intervention by the Saudi-led Arab Coalition at the bequest of Yemen’s President, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi. In the first few years of fighting between 2015 and 2017, alignment with the Southern Resistance empowered President Hadi against their common enemy, Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthi Movement.12 However, the “marriage of convenience” between Hadi and the South was called into question with the formation of the stc, the purpose of which – “rebuilding the independent federal national state of [South Arabia]” – is anathema to the aims of the Hadi government.
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