# UAE-backed southern forces seize Aden during the 2019 split with Hadi

Date: 2019

## The fact

In August 2019 UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council forces seized Aden from Hadi-aligned units, a completed intra-coalition split inside the Yemen war [Mohamed bin Zayed](/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan)’s UAE had entered in 2015.

## Context

The STC is a southern separatist vehicle the UAE armed and funded, independently reported. Saudi Arabia backed Hadi. He was UAE security principal. He did not personally occupy the palace. Later Riyadh agreements are neighbouring.

The 2015 intervention is the parent war. 2022 PLC meetings are later.

The president of the United Arab Emirates is elected by the Federal Supreme Council of the seven emirates and is, in this case, also Ruler of Abu Dhabi and supreme commander of the armed forces. He does not write UNFCCC consensus texts by himself, IAEA operating licences, Israeli Knesset statutes, or UN panel reports.

## Evidence and sources

Emirates News Agency carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is political polarisation and [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access): a completed intra-coalition seizure of Aden fragmented the anti-[Houthi](/people/abdul-malik-al-houthi) camp and civilian authority.

## What is established and what is not

Established: August 2019 STC seizure of Aden with contemporaneous reporting of UAE backing, independently reported.

Not established: a unique Aden civilian-death coefficient from that week as his personal count.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

STC forces seized Aden. Saudi Arabia backed Hadi. A split is not a UN membership change.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies UAE-backed southern forces seize Aden during the 2019 split with Hadi, not a later speech about UAE-backed southern forces seize Aden during the 2019 split with Hadi.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. UAE-backed southern forces seize Aden during the 2019 split with Hadi on 2019-08-10 is not a licence to treat every later Emirates News Agency communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average UAE-backed southern forces seize Aden during the 2019 split with Hadi into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was UAE security principal backing the STC. STC forces seized Aden. Saudi Arabia backed Hadi. A split is not a UN membership change. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan: https://factrail.ai/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization
- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-aden-idUSKCN1V00K4
- https://www.wam.ae/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-stc-yemen-2019