Protests in Yemen’s Aden as currency value slashes

Aden, Jan 14 : Scores of Yemeni people took to the streets in the country’s southern port city of Aden protesting against the sharp deterioration of their national currency.
In different neighbourhoods of Aden, protesters burned tyres and blocked main roads, forcing many business stores to shut down.
The protest organisers demanded the newly power-sharing government based in Aden to begin with urgent economic reforms in order to curb the currency’s sharp devaluation.
“We haven’t got salaries for about four months and now the currency devaluation multiplied our suffering,” a protester named Ahmed Mahmud told Xinhua on Wednesday.
“It’s very difficult for the ordinary people, including the employees, with limited income to live without salaries amid the skyrocketing prices of basic commodities,” said Mahmud.
Earlier in the day, all the commercial banks and exchange companies operating in the southern port city of Aden closed their doors after the sharp devaluation of the local currency against major foreign currencies.