STC Assembly Appeals to Saudi Arabia and UAE to Urgently Intervene and Avert Humanitarian Catastrophe in Aden (Statement)

The Administrative Body of the National Assembly of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) held its regular meeting on Wednesday, headed by Mr. Ali Abdullah Al-Kathiri, Chairman of the National Assembly and Acting President of the STC.

The administrative body extensively focused on the catastrophic collapse of public services in the capital, Aden, caused by the complete shutdown of power generation stations. Following its meeting, it has issued the following statement:

The administrative body of the National Assembly of the STC has urgently called on the Arab Coalition, foremost of which are official brothers in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to immediately intervene to halt the catastrophic deterioration of living conditions, public services, and the economy and rescue the capital, Aden, and the rest of the governorates of the South from a looming humanitarian disaster.

The body of the Assembly warns that the capital, Aden, is facing a catastrophic situation in light of the total absence of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) and the government and their complete failure to fulfill their responsibilities, as the capital has become deprived of the most basic services as a result of the government's inability to carry out and assume responsibilities towards the people in the governorates of the South and liberated areas.

The body has emphatically denounced the exploitation of civilian suffering to advance blatant political agendas targeting the people of South and their just cause, asserting such moves solely serve the interests of the Houthi militia and terrorist groups, especially with regard to the rapidly deteriorating economic conditions, including the sharp collapse of local currency against foreign exchange rates, which has triggered skyrocketing prices for food, consumer goods, and a worsening cost-of-living crisis. It further underscored the total collapse of electricity services in the capital, Aden—an unprecedented outage since the city’s electrification nearly a century ago—warning the blackout now risks paralyzing hospitals and severing water supplies across the capital’s districts, which exposes the failure of the PLC and its internationally recognized government to secure adequate diesel and fuel shipments to power electricity stations and for not securing crude oil shipments from Hadramout governorate to reach the capital, Aden.