Aden’s power outages worsen as private generators cut supplies

AL-MUKALLA: Power outages in Yemen’s southern city of Aden worsened on Thursday as private electricity generators turned off supplies in protest over unpaid bills.

Amid sweltering summer temperatures, the city’s state-run electricity company reported that many of the private firms that supplied the city with electricity had progressively withdrawn their services in a bid to put pressure on the government to meet outstanding payments.

Aden, Yemen’s interim capital, was among the cities liberated from Iran-backed Houthis occupation in 2015.