A/HRC/42/17 Brigade commander59 2 Awad Massod Al Dahboul Shabwah Security Director Shabwah 3 June 2016 3 Lt. Col. Mohammed Salem Al Buhair AlQamish Lt. Col. Wajdi Ba'aum Al-Khelaifi Shabwah Elite Forces Commander Belhaf October 2017 Commander of the Martyrs' Axis, Shabwah Elite Forces Nassab and Markha 5 Major Mahdi Mohammed Barahma Shabwah Rapid Intervention Forces60 6 General Muhammed Saleh Farah al-Kirby61 Harad Base Shabwah 7 Sheikh Saleh Farid Muhsen al-Olaki Influence 62 Shabwah 4 Serial f. Main Actors in Ta’izz Governorate Name Position Location Date Assumed Role/Remarks January 2016 – September 2017 1 Ali Al-Ma’mari63 Former Governor64 Ta’izz 2 Ameen Ahmed Mahmoud 65 Former Governor Ta’izz December 2017 – December 2018 3 Nabil Abdu Shaman Governor 66 Ta’izz 31 December 2018 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Presidential Decree 6 (2017), available at http://mosnad.net/news.php?id=18513, and http://yemennow.com/news1444016.html. UN document S/2018/68. Ibid. https://shabwaah-press.info/news/2068; see also https://almashhadalaraby.com/news/35534. Caught in the Middle: A Conflict Mapping of Ta’izz Governorate, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, August 2018, available at: https://www.deeproot.consulting/single-post/2018/08/16/Caught-in-the-Middle-AConflict-Mapping-of-Taiz-Governorate (“Stiftung Conflict Mapping of Ta’izz”). https://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2017/9/26/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%82%D8% A7%D9%84%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%B2-%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%81-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B8%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86; see also https://yemen-press.com/news100441.html. Presidential Decree 83 (2017). See http://www.alharf28.com/p-1394. See also Stiftung Conflict Mapping of Ta’izz. Presidential Decree 79 (2018). See https://almawqeapost.net/news/37080. 27