Houthis Say They Seek Peaceful Power Transition in #Yemen
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Yemeni members of a local popular committee, which consists of a group of volunteers who maintain security in their region, stand in the street, one holding an anti tank rocket launcher, in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, on January 27, 2015. AFP
The leader of Yemen’s Houthis — who seized the capital Sanaa — said on Tuesday his group was seeking a peaceful transfer of power after the resignation of President #Abed-Rabbo_Mansour_Hadi and urged all factions to work together to solve the ongoing crisis. #Abdel-Malek_al-Houthi's conciliatory remarks in a televised speech came less than an hour after his supporters released Hadi’s chief of staff, whom they abducted last week, in an attempt to gain leverage in a dispute with Hadi over the constitution. read (...)