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*** 5-May-18 World View -- UAE troops and tanks deployed to Yemen's Socotra island in dispute with Saudi Arabia

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • Residents of Yemen's Socotra island protest UAE military deployment
  • Rift grows between Saudi Arabia and UAE in Yemen

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**** Residents of Yemen's Socotra island protest UAE military deployment
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[Image: g180504b.jpg]
Landscape of Socotra Island, with hundreds of plant species found only there. Pictured are 'dragon's blood trees' (Corbis/Daily Mail)

Residents of Socotra Island are reacting angrily and protesting about
the increasing presence of hundreds of troops, tanks, armored
transports and heavy equipment that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is
deploying on the island in a power struggle with Saudi Arabia.

Socotra Island belongs to Yemen, and is strategically located south of
Yemen where it oversees shipping traffic traveling from the Arabian
Sea, through the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea through the Suez Canal.

Socotra Island is similar to the Galapagos Islands, in that it's been
isolated for millions of years, allowing for the development of
hundreds of unique plant species found nowhere else on earth. Because
of its unique plant life, it has recently been declared a UNESCO World
Heritage Site.

Since 2015, Yemen has been the target of a proxy war Iran-backed
ethnic Houthis versus an Arab military coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
The war has become an example of the old African proverb: "When
elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers," in that the proxy war
has caused endless misery to the ordinary people of Yemen, resulting
in massive homelessness, starvation and cholera. The end of the war
seems to be nowhere in sight.

Now the 60,000 people of the Socotra Island are being pulled into the
war as well, with the UAE deployment. Many of these people are
furious at the UAE, and some are even accusing the UAE of deploying
the military in order to steal UNESCO-protected species of plants and
animals from the island. Middle East Eye and Independent (London) and Al Jazeera and Daily Mail (London, 25-Sep-2013)

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**** Rift grows between Saudi Arabia and UAE in Yemen
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The internationally recognized government of Yemen is led by President
Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, who has been hiding out in Saudi Arabia
because of the war with the Houthis. While the Houthis are backed by
Iran, Hadi's government is backed by an coalition led by Saudi Arabia.

As the war has continued for years with no end in sight, we reported in January,
that there has been
a split between coalition members Saudi Arabia and UAE. This has
resulted in military clashes between Saudi and UAE forces in the
southern port city of Aden.

The UAE has been backing the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a
separatist faction calling for the division of Yemen into Northern
Yemen and Southern Yemen, and claiming Aden as the capital city of
Southern Yemen.

The split between Saudi Arabia and UAE is potentially dangerous
because UAE is attempting to extend its influence well beyond its
borders into much of what the STC would like to be Southern Yemen.
UAE's move to exert control over Socotra is seen as a further move in
that direction. Anadolu (Turkey) and Middle East Eye (12-May-2017) and Press TV (Iran)

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Yemen, Socotra Island, dragon's blood trees,
United Arab Emirates, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Houthis, Iran,
Galapagos Islands, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi,
Aden, Southern Yemen, Southern Transitional Council, STC

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