Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi

The formation of a new government by Yemen's armed Houthi movement and its political allies will hinder peace efforts in the country, the U.N. special envoy to Yemen said on Nov. 29. 

The move, reported by the Houthi-run state news agency on Nov. 28, has been seen as a blow to U.N.-backed efforts to end 20 months of war in Yemen. 

The governor of Yemen's Aden province Jaafar Mohammed Saad was killed on Dec. 6 when a suicide bomber rammed his car into the governor's convoy in the western part of Aden city, residents and a local official said.

Al Qaeda have retaken the two major southern Yemeni towns of Zinjibar and Jaar, while Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah rejected a cabinet reshuffle ordered on Dec. 1, by Hadi.

Yemen's exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi returned to the southern port city of Aden on Nov. 17 to rally forces loyal to him in the country's civil war and oversee a campaign to retake the city of Taiz, a presidency official said.

A Saudi brigadier general has died in hospital of wounds incurred on the border with Yemen, the armed forces said. 

Ibrahim Omar Ibrahim Hamzi, deputy commander of the 8th brigade in Saudi Arabia's southern Jizan province, was injured "defending the nation and its citizens," the statement said, without providing any details. 

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi landed in Aden on Sept.22, airport sources said, the first time he had been in the southern port city since he left for Saudi Arabia as Houthi fighters closed in on it in March. 

A car bomb exploded outside an Ismaili mosque in an eastern district of the Yemen's war-damaged capital Sanaa on July 29, killing three people and wounding seven, a security source said. 

Several ministers and top intelligence officials touched down in Yemen's war-torn southern city of Aden on July 16, Yemeni officials said, in the first visit by the exiled government based in Saudi Arabia in more than three months of war. 

Saudi-led air strikes and heavy shelling between warring factions shook several cities in Yemen on July 11, residents said, violating a United Nations humanitarian truce which took effect just before midnight. 

Shelling by Yemen's Houthi militia killed four soldiers from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates stationed on Yemen's border with the kingdom, Saudi state media reported on June 25.

The Houthis have stepped up attacks on Saudi border posts in recent weeks, despite three months of bombardment by a Saudi-led coalition intent on restoring Yemen's government in exile.