SHABWA (Debriefer)--The United Arab Emirates has deployed military reinforcements into the Balhaf oil port in Yemen's southeastern province of Shabwa where the country's sole LNG plant is based, sources said on Thursday.
Adel Al-Hasani, a leader in the southern resistance, said the reinforcements included local armed groups and have arrived at the port a day after their stop at the Mukalla port.
Their duty is to protect the UAE troops stationed at the Balhaf LNG Plant, he said, without giving more details.
The UAE is a member in a Saudi-led coalition which has been fighting in Yemen since March 2015.
It took over the plant in 2016 and has since been preventing LNG exports.
Yemen is losing between $2 billion and $3.7 billion a year as a result of the continued shutdown of the plant, local economists say.
