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Add as preferred source on GoogleYemen appoints Salem Saleh Bin Braikas as new prime minister after cabinet resignation, amid ongoing political and military challenges.
ADEN (Reuters) -Yemen has appointed Salem Saleh Bin Braikas, who served as finance minister in the previous cabinet, as prime minister, the presidential council said in a statement on Saturday.
Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, prime minister of Yemen's internationally recognised government, said he had resigned after facing "many difficulties" including being unable to reshuffle the government.
He had clashed with Rashad Al-Alimi, head of Yemen's presidential council, over his powers after the latter refused Mubarak's request to dismiss 12 of the government's ministers, six government sources told Reuters.
Mubarak was appointed premier in February 2024 after serving as foreign minister. He came to prominence in 2015 when he was kidnapped by Houthi militiamen while serving as Yemen's presidential chief of staff during the Houthis' conflict with then-president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The U.S. has been intensifying airstrikes to destroy Houthi military assets and deter the Iran-aligned Houthis, who control most of Yemen including its main population centres in the north and west, from targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
The deadly strikes on the group since March have been the biggest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January.
Yemen has been embroiled in civil war for over a decade. The Houthis seized Sanaa in 2014 and ousted the recognised government, forcing it to relocate to the southern port of Aden.
(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; writing by Menna Alaa El-Din; and Ahmed Tolba editing by Barbara Lewis, Mark Heinrich and Kevin Liffey)
The main topic is the appointment of Salem Saleh Bin Braikas as Yemen's new prime minister following the cabinet's resignation.
Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak resigned due to difficulties in reshuffling the government and clashes with Rashad Al-Alimi.
Yemen is embroiled in a civil war, with the Houthis controlling major areas and the U.S. conducting airstrikes against them.
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