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Sunday 04 Oct 2015 - 17:14 Makkah mean time-21-12-1436
 Aden (IINA) -Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah has warned Houthi terrorists that there is no place in the country for more adventures.
He also vowed to press on with a campaign to retake territory from Houthis. “There is no room for any more political or military adventures,” said Bahah, who is also vice president. “This is a last warning to the Houthis and their allies” among troops loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Bahah was speaking at a military camp near the strategic Bab Al-Mandab Strait, which loyalist forces retook control over on Tuesday. The narrow waterway funnels shipping to and from the Suez Canal, which lies at the north end of the Red Sea.
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his government returned to Aden recently following six months in exile, after loyalist forces regained control of the port city and four other southern provinces from the rebels. The Houthis still control the capital and northern provinces near the border with Saudi Arabia, but loyalists have been pressing a campaign whose eventual aim is to regain Sana’a.
Bahah said the current operation “will push to retake Mokha and Hodeida,” both on the Red Sea, and then the “whole coastline up to the border with Saudi Arabia.” The port of Mokha is located some 20 km north of the area seized this week. Hodeida, about 190 km farther north, lies to the west of Sana’a. Controlling it would help create a pincer on the capital, as loyalist forces have also been pressing rebels in Marib province, to its east.
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