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At least eight civilians were killed on Friday in renewed clashes between southern separatists and government forces in Aden, the seat of Yemen’s internationally-recognised government, medical sources said, reports Reuters.
The violence began this week after the separatists accused an Islamist party allied to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi of complicity in the killing of an earlier missile attack on a military parade in the southern port city that killed 36 people.
The separatists and the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi are nominally united in their battle against the Houthis.
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But they have rival agendas for Yemen’s future, and a missile strike in Aden last week that killed dozens of southern soldiers raised friction between them.
![Deaths in Yemen Conflict - Cartoon [Sarwar Ahmed/MiddleEastMonitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20160331_SA-Deaths-in-Yemen-Conflict.png?resize=920%2C659&ssl=1)
Deaths in Yemen Conflict – Cartoon [Sarwar Ahmed/MiddleEastMonitor]