Yemen's prime minister quits, replaced by foreign minister

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Yemen's ⁠Saudi-backed presidential ⁠leadership ‍council has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Salem bin Breik and ‍appointed Foreign Minister Shaya Mohsen Zindani as ​the country's new prime minister, the state news ​agency Saba reported on Thursday.

Bin Breik formally submitted the resignation, which was approved by the council, before Zindani ​was named to form the next cabinet, Saba said.

Yemen has been a source of ​heightened tensions in recent months between Saudi Arabia and the ‌United Arab Emirates.

A UAE-backed separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, gained control of ​areas across southern and ⁠eastern Yemen in December, advancing to within reach of the Saudi ‌border, which the kingdom considered a threat to its national security. Saudi-backed fighters have since largely ‌retaken those areas.

Sharp differences over a range of other ‌issues from geopolitics to oil output have also been a cause of friction between the two Gulf powers.

Saudi ‍Arabia and the UAE had previously worked together in a coalition ⁠battling the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen's civil war, which brought on one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Chris Reese and Edmund Klamann)

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