Sanaa: The United States (U.S) ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein on Sunday said that a recent military shake-up has improved the fight against al-Qaida, which has taken advantage of internal turmoil to overrun parts of the country’s south.
Talking to media Ambassador Gerald Feierstein said that Washington is concerned about Yemeni officials who resist reforms ordered by the new president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. He replaced longtime ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh after a year of demonstrations and unrest.
“We have begun to see in the past few days … a strategy to challenge al-Qaida in ways they have not done in the past months,” he said.
Yemen’s army has stepped up the offensive against al-Qaida’s dangerous Yemen branch in the south after Hadi made the announcements that replaced Saleh loyalists with new officials. In his more than 30 years in power, Saleh stacked key security and government posts with relatives and cronies. One of Hadi’s main challenges is weeding them out as part of urgently needed reforms in the fight against al-Qaida.
Yemen has received hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance from the U.S. over the years. The U.S. has also been directly involved in the fight against al-Qaida, carrying out drone strikes in Yemen targeting militants.
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