President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi appointed new advisors to him a day after a short visit by Vice President Khalid Bahah to Aden city in the south which was retaken from the Houthi militants lately.
The new advisors were Haider Abu Bakr Al-Attas, a key southern leader who has been exiled in Saudi Arabia since the 1994 war, Mohammed Obaid Bin Daghr, a key leader in the General People's Congress, the former ruling party, and Abdulaziz Jubari.
Hadi made the appointments from Riyadh where he and the government have been staying and acting for months.
Bahah left Aden after his first visit since the government settled in Riyadh. There were not details about the purpose of the visit and what Bahah could do during it as experts argued that it just was a message to the international community that it is now very possible to back the return of the government into the south.
Meanwhile, battles between the government forces and the Houthi militants continued in several cities today with reports from Lahj and Abyan saying the forces are making progress on war fronts and are expected to retake the two southern cities from the Houthis in the near future.
The Saudi-led Arab coalition conducted airstrikes against the Houthi militants in the two cities in support of the government forces, sources said.
The coalition has been bombing Houthi forces, camps and weapons since March.