NYN | News
Informed sources have revealed alarming details about an agreement being prepared in Yemen’s Hadramout governorate, aimed at handing over a vital strategic location in the “Sector 14” area of the Al-Masila oil field—one of Yemen’s largest oil and gas fields—to American and British military units, amid concerns that the area may turn into a battleground for international conflict over the country’s resources.
According to the sources, the agreement—facilitated by the pro-coalition Aden government—allows foreign forces to establish military bases and carry out operations to “protect maritime corridors” under security pretexts. However, the actual goal seems to be controlling Yemen’s energy resources, a move that evokes memories of old colonial exploitation of nations’ wealth.
The targeted location holds giant oil reserves worth billions of dollars, and is considered a vital lifeline for Yemen’s struggling economy.
Analysts consider this move as part of a systematic approach to a new partitioning map being carried out by the coalition forces through the Aden government, after their failure to achieve a military victory during years of war.
Economists, for their part, have warned that remaining silent about such deals will open the door to the complete depletion of Yemen’s resources under deceptive legal pretenses.
