While the Hadhramaut Inclusive Conference formed, on Tuesday, two escalation committees in the coastal districts and the valley and desert districts in Hadhramaut in eastern Yemen, the Al-Shahr district witnessed, yesterday, Wednesday, popular protests angry at the collapse of services, especially electricity, and the deterioration of the value of the national currency, and the ongoing results that result from it. From the deterioration in living conditions, with the continuous rise in food prices.

Local media reports said that protesters set fire to damaged tires and blocked main roads, including the international road that passes through there.

The protesters raised demands to improve services, most notably electricity, where outage hours reached 15 hours a day, according to (Aad TV channel) on Telegram.

Local sources reported that the protest caused the closure of money exchange shops and shops.

The city of Mukalla, the capital of Hadramaut Governorate, witnessed similar popular protests on Monday evening.

The protesters set fire to damaged tires and closed the main roads in protest against the power outage, which reached 10 consecutive hours, compared to two hours of operation, according to the Al-Ahqaf Net website.

The Hadhramaut Coast Electricity Corporation explained that the crisis resulted from a severe shortage of operating fuel, which led to the generation stations being out of service, and caused a large deficit in power generation.

The corporation indicated that the 132 kV electrical transmission lines coming from the Al-Rayyan Central Generating Station to the city of Mukalla suffered a technical malfunction that led to the station being out of service since Tuesday morning.

These protests, which are expected to extend to include all the districts of the coast and Wadi Hadhramaut, come with the continuing power outage for long hours, in light of the existing tension due to the deterioration of public services and the deterioration of living conditions, as a result of the continuous rise in food prices with the continued collapse of the value of the riyal. The value of salaries has diminished, and the purchasing power of the majority of citizens has declined.

The Inclusive Hadhramaut Conference, headed by Amr bin Habrish, who also heads the Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance, issued a decision on Tuesday evening to form two escalation committees to achieve Hadhramaut’s demands in the coastal, valley and desert districts.

The decision, which was published by the “Al-Jamea” page on the “Facebook” platform, stipulated the formation of a main escalation committee in the Hadhramaut coastal districts consisting of ten people, and the formation of a main escalation committee in the Hadhramaut Valley and Desert districts consisting of eight people.

Hadhramaut Governorate, the largest governorate in Yemen and the richest in oil, has been witnessing an escalation for three months by the Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance and the Hadhramaut Inclusive Conference against the local authority and the Presidential Command Council, against the backdrop of the deterioration of public services and the continuous rise in prices, in addition to what the alliance demands. And the “Jami’” in affirming Hadhramaut’s right to its oil and wealth, and accrediting the “Jami’ as a representative of the governorate in the upcoming Yemeni settlement consultations.

The escalation of the alliance and the alliance was clearly evident in the continuation of tribal mobilization and mobilization in the Hadhramaut plateau for more than two months, in parallel with the deployment of alliance militants on the main roads, including the entrances and exits of the oil production fields there.