“There is no electricity, no water, no salaries,” said Waheeb Dawood, an Aden resident. “We are almost dead, not alive,” he told AFP from a street market, where vendors outnumbered customers in the days leading up to the Eid holiday.

Though Fance24 may claim:

“At the end of last year, Huthi drone attacks on government-run oil terminals halted hydrocarbon exports, the main source of income for the Saudi-backed authorities.
This aggravated the collapse of the Yemeni rial, further limiting the government’s ability to finance basic services and the salaries of civil servants,“

the real reason for the stagnated economy in the South is the PLC’s ‘Pervasive corruption’.