Yemen Monitor / Al-Mahrah / Special:
A military and security force stormed the home of former commander of the Al-Ghaydah military axis, Major General Mohsen Mursaa, on Tuesday evening. He had been dismissed from his position under a presidential decree issued on January 7.
A special source told Yemen Monitor that joint forces from the Nation’s Shield Forces and the Facilities Security Forces raided Mursaa’s house as part of a campaign carried out by the security committee to search for weapons looted from military camps during the unrest the province experienced earlier this year.
The source said the security committee had previously given a deadline for anyone possessing looted weapons from military camps to hand them over. After the deadline expired, security and military forces began raiding locations suspected of containing stolen military equipment. He noted that army camps, including the Al-Ghaydah Axis camps, had been looted, with medium and heavy weapons reported missing.
The source added that Mursaa is no longer in Al-Mahrah and left the province after the recent military changes, his dismissal from his position, and his referral for investigation under Presidential Decree No. 7 of 2026, issued in early January.
In reaction to the incident, former Al-Mahrah governor Rajeh Bakrit, a member of the dissolved Southern Transitional Council leadership, condemned the raid on Major General Mohsen Mursaa’s home, describing it as “narrow score-settling and acts of revenge.”
