The new technocrat government would be headed by Prime-Minister designate Khaled Mahfuz Behah.
The President appointed General Mahmoud al-Subaihi (photo) as Defense Minister, and General Jalal al-Rweishan, who used to head to security apparatus, as Interior Minister.
Mohammed Mansour remained Minister of Finance.
The new cabinet will also have four female Ministers including Nadia al-Saqqaf who was appointed as Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Minister of Culture Arwa Othman, and Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Kaboul Muhammad Abdulmalik Mutawakkil.
The Ministry of Human Rights was assigned to the rights activist Izz al-Deen Said al-Asbahi.
President Hadi also assigned Ghaleb Abdullah Mutlak as the Head of a new Ministry in charge of implementing agreements with opposition forces.
Under a power-sharing agreement signed last month, the Houthis are meant to withdraw their forces from the city once a new administration is formed. Tensions rose last week when they set an ultimatum for President Hadi to form a government within 10 days or face “other options.”
Stability in the country of 25 million people is important to the United States because it borders oil-producing Saudi Arabia and is home to one of the most active branches of al-Qaeda.
Once a religious movement seeking greater autonomy in the north, the Houthis have in recent months become Yemen’s power-brokers and sent their militiamen into the west and center of the country, far beyond their traditional redoubts.
They captured Sanaa on September 21, following weeks of anti-government unrest.
The White House on Friday welcomed the formation of Yemen’s new government, and encouraged the impoverished Arab nation to overcome partisan politics following weeks of turmoil.
Source: AFP; Agencies
