On Monday afternoon, Yemen president Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi met Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz in Riyadh.
"During the meeting, the Saudi monarch ordered his government to donate fuel to help cover Yemen’s fuel shortage for two months," Saba said.
Yemen went from exporting fuel to depending heavily on fuel donations or fuel imported from abroad as the country’s oil pipelines have been destroyed by consecutive blasts in the rich province of Mareb where tribesmen target oil pipelines to squeeze concessions from the government. Fuel shortages have created long queues at petrol stations.
During the year-long crisis in 2011 that followed protesters against the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Saudi Arabia and the UAE donated fuel to Yemen.
