- Title: Fresh fuel crisis hits Houthi-controlled Sanaa
- Date: 16th April 2019
- Summary: SANAA, YEMEN (APRIL 14, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF VEHICLES QUEUING UP OUTSIDE PETROL STATIONS VEHICLES WAITING TO REFUEL INSIDE PETROL STATION MAN REFUELLING VEHICLE FUEL NOZZLE VARIOUS OF FUEL DISPENSER / METER SHOWING QUANTITY AND PRICE OF FUEL (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SANAA RESIDENT WAITING TO REFUEL VEHICLE, SAAD AZZAN, SAYING: "We have been waiting since last night to refuel because of the siege and aggression. What did the Yemeni people or the Yemeni citizen do wrong? We urge the United Nations and the human rights organisations to let oil and oil products in for the Yemeni people which has been suffering since the beginning of the aggression." VEHICLES OUTSIDE PETROL STATION MAN REFUELLING VEHICLE VARIOUS OF VEHICLES QUEUING OUTSIDE PETROL STATIONS MAN COUNTING MONEY INSIDE PETROL STATION (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) REPRESENTATIVE OF OIL COMPANY, ABDULLAH MOHAMMED AL-HASHDI, SAYING: "Supplies are now very limited, so what we are trying to do is to distribute the (oil) products on the stations and agents in certain areas and certain stations in order to contain the crisis." CLOSED FUEL STATION VARIOUS OF FUEL DISPENSERS TRAFFIC SANAA, YEMEN (APRIL 15, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MEN PROTESTING OUTSIDE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CARRYING BANNERS DEMANDING END OF OIL TANKERS SEIZURE BANNERS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ONE OF PROTEST LEADERS, MOHAMMED AL-ASHRAM, SAYING: "We are in the 10th day of our open sit-in outside at the U.N. office, after we organised seven marches and seven protests outside the U.N. office to ask it to carry on with its role and its humanitarian and ethical role towards the Yemeni people and release the (fuel) ships that are seized in the sea by the (Saudi-led) coalition."
- Embargoed: 30th April 2019 15:20
- Keywords: fuel crisis in Sanaa Yemen war in Yemen UAE Saudi Arabia Sanaa security fuel crisis houthi movement
- Location: SANAA, YEMEN
- City: SANAA, YEMEN
- Country: Yemen
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA001AAPN0PH
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Sanaa resident, Saad Azzan, spent the night in the street looking to refuel his car as the Yemeni capital faces yet another fuel crisis.
The 35-year-old government employee blames a siege enforced by a Saudi-led coalition, in war with the Iran-backed Houthi movement since 2015, of blocking imports to the capital in an attempt to cut off weapons' supplies to the Houthis.
"We have been waiting since last night to refuel because of the siege and aggression," he said as he took the driver's seat in his white pickup.
"What did the Yemeni people or the Yemeni citizen do wrong? We urge the United Nations and the human rights organisations to let oil and oil products in for the Yemeni people," he added.
Officials in the Houthi administration blame the Saudi-led coalition for the crisis, which sees dozens of petrol stations closed, according to local media, forcing residents to buy from the black market.
"Supplies are now very limited, so what we are trying to do is to distribute the (oil) products on the stations and agents in certain areas and certain stations in order to contain the crisis," said Abdullah Mohammed al-Hashdi, a representative of an oil company.
Dozens of oil company workers protested in front of the United Nations office in the capital on Monday (April 15), urging the international community to allow ships carrying fuel products into the Yemeni ports.
The Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015 to restore the government of Saudi-backed president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, but the war has reached a military stalemate.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have been killed and an economic collapse has left about 16 million facing severe hunger. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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