News - Yemen: A total blackout has engulfed several occupied southern provinces, highlighting the Saudi-backed government’s failure to address the electricity crisis or provide fuel for power stations.

Sources report that public electricity institutions in Abyan, Aden, and Hadhramout have confirmed a complete grid collapse, blaming the outages on fuel shortages. These institutions hold US-Saudi-backed mercenaries fully responsible for worsening the situation, which exacerbates citizens' suffering.

In 2015, Saudi and Emirati forces entered the city of Aden from Bir Ali, citing the need to repel the "Ansarullah" intervention and "secure international navigation". It didn't take long after the arrival of these forces for the new British-style experiment to take shape.

This comes amid escalating anger and popular discontent among citizens in the occupied southern and eastern provinces due to the collapse of the electricity system in many of these provinces. The pro-aggression government has failed to provide the necessary fuel to operate power plants and save citizens from the intense summer heat.

The Saudi-Emirati ambition in Yemen faced a southern awakening, which began on the island of Socotra when thousands protested against turning the island into a dependency of Abu Dhabi. Then came the uprising of the people of Al-Mahra in July, demanding sovereignty over the province and rejecting foreign control over the city. The protests expanded to reach the city of Aden, where the UAE has deployed over thirty thousand local military personnel loyal to them.

Hundreds took to the streets demanding the departure of the "coalition" forces from the south, a situation that analysts have compared to the protests in the 1960s against British presence, which laid the foundation for armed struggle in the south.