It's not like Iraq and syria where the sectarian identity is stronger than clan identity
Can you believe that we share more in common with yemen than sudan where the president belongs to his maternal clan!
President al bashirs clan(al badiriya) r marginalized in favour of his maternal clan (al jacliya!) who dominate the trade bc sudan is not tribal and one can become one of the tribe if his family settles their region
In north Africa, you can see algerians who their grandfather's came from egypt, morroco yet r considered full Algerians!
So there is no such thing as houths in Yemen or sectarian issues, the main issue in Yemen is about the role of the dominating al hashid/xashid clan who stood against the union for fear of losing its influence in Yemen
This clan is predominantly yazidi, the fifth sunni madh-hab though they r classified as shia for their favouring of ala bayt over the rest of sahaba whom they highly respect them unlike of the rafidha....infact there's is no much differences between zaydia and shafia and in somalia we had their books like nayl al awtar for imam al imam al shawkani....however, the leading subclan of hashid r fully sunna/ shafiya so all the tribal chiefs and al islah leaders hail from them
The union was long suggested by the south but they want fair representation not one clan-state
AL hashid had strong posts such as the interior, the army (defense) the speaker, the president, the two ruling parties and have declared jihad on the southren socialist party and took the port of aden without developing the south
Once there was a president who challenged then hashid interior al sheikh cabdallah al axmar by visiting aden for union talks and they assassinated him as soon he was back!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_al-Hamdi
They ruled the country through a coalition of three leaders: ali salah, his half brother general muhsin al ahmar as the army (hes not exactly hashid but hes considered as one of their generals) and sheikh al axmar as the chief of the tribe, the interior, the speaker and the leader of al islah
The last two represent the Saudi interests in Yemen while salah was pro-pan arabism
During the Arab spring, the much hated al islah opportunists have cheated on salah....since they had control on the army they hijacked the revolution and the plan was general muhsin siding with the revolution and becoming the president!
That's why salah has opened the gate for the houths as a counter revolution to destroy their agenda!
Hashid has sided with salah after his southren deputy succeeded him!
So you see the problem is a political within the hashid clan and not the houths who r an extremist minority that was created by Iran
Now, the current interim president has appointed general muhsin for the army(means hes the second man now)....hes tested with capturing sancaa and sacda and some of the salah officers have started defecting to him
War is now taking place at sanca and sacda borders, so once the houths were defeated, saudis should deal with ala saalah otherwise the houths....
Yemen has bigger issues like ISIS and alqaida who control some southren provinces.....this is very danger to the north regions of somalia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulla ... n_al-Ahmar
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Mohsen_al-Ahmar
https://youtu.be/i-cxs83HRMI
