A/HRC/42/17 4th Military District Commander25 11 Major General Fadhl Hasan 12 Major General Yahya Hussien 5th Military District Salah Commander26 13 Major General Hashem Abdallah al-Ahmar 14 Major General Mohsen 7th Military District Ahmed Mohammed al-Khabi Commander28 6th Military District Commander27 Aden 21 November 2016 Midi, Hajjah 17 February 2018 al-Jawf 17 February 2018 Nahim, Sana’a 5 August 2018 b. Main Actors in Aden Governorate Serial Name Position Location 1 Major General Aydaroos al-Zubaidi President of Southern Transitional Council (STC)29 al-Tawaihi 2 Sheikh Hani Bin Brek Vice President of the Southern Transitional Council al-Tawaihi 3 Major General Shallal alShaye31 Public Security Director al-Tawaihi, Gold moor coast 8 December 2015 4 Brigadier General Wadah Omer Abdul Aziz32 Commander Security Belt and 3rd Support Brigade33 March 2016 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Ras Abbas camp Date Assumed Role/Remarks 11 May 2017 Previous position was State Minister from 6 January 2016 until 27 April 201730 Yemen’s Southern Powder keg, Chatham House, Peter Salisbury, 2018. Presidential Decree 155 (2016). Presidential Decree 20 (2018). Available on: https://www.almashhad-alyemeni.com/104230. Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbu9zpVUNPM. Presidential Decree 20 (2018) Replacing Major General Wae’l al-Dulaymi who had been in that position since 2015. See https://al-arabi.com/s/21767. Presidential Decree 151 (2018). See https://al-ain.com/article/yemen-president-army. Governor of Aden from 7 December 2015 until 27 April 2017. The Council HQ is located in the neighbourhood of al-Fath near the Gold moor coast, al-Tawahi in Aden. See STC website, available: https://stc-eu.org/ar/sueduebergangsrat/. Also see https://www.facebook.com/Aidrooszubidi; https://twitter.com/AidrosAlzubidi; https://www.facebook.com/Aidrooszubidi. Presidential Decree 45 (2016). Available at: https://mail.almasdaronline.info/article/78623. Interview with Major General Shallal al-Shaye, 25 April 2018. See also https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/southern-transitional-council-and-waryemen. Interview with Brigadier General Wadah Omer Abdul Aziz, 25 April 2018. Presidential Decree 60 (2016). 23