A/HRC/45/6 Serial Name 9 Position Location Remarks Major General Faraj Salamin 2nd Military District Al-Mukalla, Since 2015 al-Bahasani Commander32 Hadramaut ‫لواء ركن فرج سالمين البحسيني‬ 10 Major General Mohammad al-Hubashi 3rd Military District Ma’rib Commander33 14 August 2019 4th Military District Aden Commander34 21 November 2016 ‫لواء ركن محمد أحمد الحبيشي‬ 11 Major General Fadhl Hasan ‫لواء ركن فاضل حسن‬ 12 Major General Yahya Hussien Salah ‫لواء ركن يحي‬ ‫حسن صالح‬ 5th Military District Midi, Commander35 Hajjah 17 February 2018 13 Major General Hashem Abdullah Al Ahmar 6th Military District Al-Jawf Commander Resigned on 11 February 2020 7th Military District Nihm Commander36 27 January 2020 ‫لواء هاشم عبد هللا االحمر‬ 14 Major General Ahamad Hassan Gubran ‫لواء أحمد حسن جبران‬ 15 Brigadier General Sanad Al- Commander of 1st Shaqra, Rahwa Presidential Abyan Protection Brigade37 ‫عميد ركن سند الرهوه‬ It has been located in Shaqra since August 201938 16 Brigadier General Abdulhakeem Dawkam39 Responsible for protecting Vice President Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar ‫عميد ركن عبد الحكيم دوكم‬ 17 Brigadier General Louay Awad Mohamed Zamiki41 ‫عميد لؤي عوض الزامكي‬ 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Commander of 2nd Al Abr, Presidential Hadramaut Protection Brigade40 Commander of 3rd Presidential Protection Brigade Lawdar and Previously Shaqra, stationed in Khur Abyan Maksar district of Aden, in the Jabal Hadid camp On 29 June 2017, President Hadi named Major General Faraj al-Bahasani, Governor of Hadramaut, to replace Major General Ahmed bin Breik, Presidential Decree 34 (2017) available at: https://buyemen.net/news48340.html. Also see: https://arabic.sputniknews.com/arab_world/201508161015325772. Presidential Decree 106 (2019). Available at: http://aden-tm.net/NDetails.aspx?contid=96231. Yemen’s Southern Powder keg, Chatham House, Peter Salisbury, 2018. Presidential Decree 155 (2016). Presidential Decree 20 (2018). Available at: https://www.almashhad-alyemeni.com/104230. Also, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbu9zpVUNPM. Presidential Decree 10 (2020). See: http://aden-tm.net/NDetails.aspx?contid=114859. The 1st Brigade was specifically named in the Military Arrangements annex of the Riyadh Agreement. Before that it was based in the Presidential Palace in Aden’s Crater district. The Presidential Protection Brigades: Hadi’s muscle in the south, 11 May 2020. Available at: https://al-masdaronline.net/national/771. This brigade’s forces have been protecting the vice president since 2017, while some units in the brigade are fighting on the front lines between Ma’rib and Sana’a. 25