Merchants in Al-Qaeda City in Dhi As-Sufal District in Ibb Governorate (central Yemen) complained about the illegal taxes that militia elements continue to impose on them, and the huge losses they have inflicted on them, which have pushed some of them into bankruptcy.

As you walk along Taiz and Al-Adain Streets, the heart of commercial activity in the city of Ibb (central Yemen), these days, you encounter shops with the words “for sale or rent” written on their facades, in an unusual scene in the city, which is crowded with life and whose vital streets have expanded significantly during the years of war that Ibb has escaped, unlike the most important surrounding governorates.

The Yemeni government denounced the new arbitrary levies recently imposed by the terrorist Houthi militia on ready-made clothing and fabric merchants, and considered them a systematic destruction of the private sector and the national economy.