Aden

Riyadh wants to help Yemen's various southern factions come up with creative solutions. It wants a unified Yemen, but other parties have a different agenda, complicating efforts to hold a conference.

Yemen's secessionist leader flees to the UAE via Somaliland after crossing Saudi red lines and fracturing the anti-Houthi alliance

No single party in Yemen can impose dominance over the other through military force, nor can any side achieve dominance solely by relying on external actors

For decades, two separate states - North and South Yemen - existed side-by-side, until the Cold War ended. Suddenly, the two came together. For a brief moment, united Yemen prospered.