Yemen's Saleh rallies followers in Sanaa amid Houthi rift


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  • Thursday, 24 Aug 2017

Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh arrives to a rally held to mark the 35th anniversary of the establishment of his General People's Congress party in Sanaa, Yemen August 24, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

DUBAI (Reuters) - Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh rallied thousands of supporters in the capital Sanaa on Thursday in a show of force amid an unusual public rift within the alliance fighting a Saudi-led coalition for control of the country.

Fighters loyal to the armed Houthi movement, which runs northern Yemen together with Saleh, decried him as "evil" a day earlier and condemned his description of them as a "militia".

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