The Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, has been fiercely critical of the new Yemeni government formed equally between the north and south

based on the Riyadh Agreement signed on November 5, 2019 by Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the so-called Southern Transitional Council. 

In a statement shared on her official Twitter account, Tawakkol Karman described the new Yemeni government as “the secretariat of the Saudi ambassador”, referring to Saudi interference in naming members of the government. 

“It will help him (the Saudi ambassador) to complete Saudi Arabia’s plan to tamper with Yemen, impose guardianship and control over it, and divide it into fragments”, Mrs. Karman commented.