Yemen's President and Cabinet Has Resigned - CNN

Yemen's President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi  resigned Thursday night shortly after his Prime Minister and the Cabinet stepped down, CNN reports.

The resignations of Yemeni President and other officials happened  after Houthis' recently gain power in the capital, which included kidnapping Hadi's chief of staff on Saturday and taking over the presidential palace on Tuesday.


The Cabinet and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah resigned before Hadi did on Thursday night, with Bahah telling Hadi in a letter that they essentially wanted to wash their hands of "destructive political chaos," an apparent reference to the deal that was to give Houthis more power  after the government and Houthi rebels struck a tentative peace deal meant to end days of turmoil.

"(We resigned) so that we are not made party to what is going on and what will happen," Bahah wrote in the letter, which Yemeni Information Minister Nadia Sakkaf posted on Twitter.

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