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How the UAE is entrenching its strategic influence in Yemen
As the United States pursues its peace process for Yemen, Washington still ignores a consistently overlooked threat to stability in the country: the role of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
9 June 2021, by Jonathan Fenton-Harvey for the New Arab
Saudi Arabia has focused its attention on the Houthi offensive on the Marib governorate, the last stronghold of the Riyadh-backed government of Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
And as the Houthis have consolidated influence in the north, Riyadh has also been watching the eastern governorate of Mahra, through which it reportedly seeks to build an oil pipeline, thus giving it a new transport line to the Indian Ocean.