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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour

Saudi Arabia urged to reconcile with UAE to drive back Houthi separatists in Yemen

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Mohammed bin Salman sitting with a small table between them
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (left), the UAE vice-president, and Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, meeting in Riyadh. Photograph: Saudi Press Agency/AFP/Getty Images

Saudi Arabia is being urged to reconcile with the United Arab Emirates over Yemen as the price Riyadh must pay to form a military alliance capable of driving the Houthis back.

Relations between the UAE and Saudi Arabia in Yemen, where both had backed anti-Houthi forces, plummeted in January this year when a force with which the UAE had been aligned – the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) – was attacked and defeated by Saudi Arabia in a move intended to squash its attempt to recreate a separate southern state. The UAE subsequently in effect quit Yemen.

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