News - Yemen: For the third consecutive day, the city of Aden has witnessed widespread public protests fueled by a total collapse of basic services, including complete power and water outages, amid severe shortages of fuel, food, and medicine. 

The worsening humanitarian and economic crisis reflects the deep deterioration caused by the policies of the aggression and its mercenaries in the occupied southern provinces.

Local sources confirmed that the repeated blackouts, lack of clean water, and the collapse of healthcare infrastructure have left residents in daily hardship, with soaring prices and the spread of diseases making life in Aden nearly paralyzed.

According to the same sources, these conditions are not accidental but part of a systematic policy by the aggression coalition and its mercenaries aimed at preoccupying citizens with survival struggles while continuing to plunder public wealth and tighten control over occupied areas without effective resistance.

Observers say this colonial-style administration seeks to generate hunger and fear, draining citizens’ patience and diverting attention from the broader economic and political schemes of the enemy — including control over ports, vital facilities, and the smuggling of resources.

The policy, sources added, not only exacerbates the humanitarian crisis but also aims to fracture the social fabric and weaken the people’s will to resist occupation and its agents.

Protesters are demanding urgent measures to restore electricity, water, and sanitation services, warning that continued neglect will escalate demonstrations and spread public anger throughout Aden and neighboring areas.

Meanwhile, the aggression and its mercenaries have failed to address the worsening crisis, further exposing their administrative and political failure and the deliberate nature of the suffering imposed on residents. 

Similar conditions prevail across other occupied provinces, where chaos, insecurity, and looting have turned once-vibrant cities into areas unfit for normal life.

Since the occupation of Aden and other southern provinces, the aggression coalition has imposed a system of economic control that has led to currency collapse, the diversion of oil revenues, and the systematic neglect of services. 

Repeated protests over deteriorating living conditions have been met with repression, reflecting growing public anger toward the coalition’s failed administration. The current wave of demonstrations underscores the deepening crisis under foreign-backed authorities and the widening gap between the occupying forces and the population they claim to govern.