Popular and tribal calls have escalated in the areas of Wadi Hadhramaut, southeast of the country, to come out with a new outburst to demand improving conditions and reducing the prices of oil derivatives, similar to what happened in Ma’rib Governorate during the past days.

Local sources in Sayun said that youth and tribal leaders have actually begun to take to the streets in order to express their rejection of the deteriorating living situation experienced by Hadhramaut Governorate, which is rich in oil and wealth, explaining that the first protest marches will take place on Thursday, January 4, 2023, with the participation of various civil and social segments. And tribal groups to demand improved services and a reduction in the prices of petroleum derivatives, similar to the neighboring Ma’rib governorate, which witnessed a tribal uprising in rejection of the price increase imposed on fuel.

According to the sources, Hadramaut is one of the most oil-producing governorates, along with Marib, but its regions are experiencing difficult and deteriorating conditions, and the prices of oil derivatives there have doubled, indicating that popular and tribal anger in the districts of Wadi Hadhramaut is escalating in light of the security chaos and service deterioration.

The popular and tribal movements in Wadi Hadhramaut are not the first, following the previous popular uprising led by the “Youth of Anger Movement” and the “Second Hadrami Uprising” and the “Harro Meeting Committee” to pressure the local, governmental and presidential authorities to remove the forces of the First Military District affiliated with the Brotherhood, and replace Forces of a local elite from the governorate, as well as improving basic services, confronting corruption and the plunder of oil wealth, and reducing the prices of oil derivatives.

For its part, the leadership of the First Military Region announced an increase in its readiness to face the challenges - in reference to the youth and tribal uprising, and said that the forces of the region will firmly confront all suspicious movements that want to sow discord and destabilize. As described.

Military sources indicated that directives were issued by the leadership of the First Military Region to strengthen its military sites in the various districts of the valley, and to send more military vehicles and soldiers to the streets and checkpoints to thwart any tribal and popular movements similar to the movements witnessed in Marib to drop the price dose on oil derivatives. .

It is worth noting that the Ma’rib tribes were able to obtain approval to cancel the price increase imposed on the price of oil after it was approved by the Muslim Brotherhood authority in the governorate. The tribes led a massive uprising that ended with the restoration of the old price of 3,700 Yemeni riyals per 20-liter gallon, after the oil company tried to impose it at about 8,000 Yemeni riyals.

The tribal uprising against the decision of the Muslim Brotherhood authority gave a strong impetus to the rest of the oil-rich regions, specifically in the oil-rich governorates of Hadramaut and Shabwa. Calls began to escalate to form tribal dumps near the facility and oil production fields to prevent any export or tanker exit from those sites until fuel prices were reduced. A gallon of petroleum with a capacity of 20 liters is sold for about 24 thousand Yemeni riyals, about 7 times what is sold in the neighboring Ma’rib governorate.