SANAA: The Yemeni president on Monday appointed the country's envoy to the United Nations, Khaled Bahah, as prime minister, an aide said, in a move that may help ease a political crisis after the Houthi Shi'ite Muslim group captured Sanaa last month.
The aide said Bahah's name was among three proposed by the Houthi group last week after they rejected an earlier appointment as prime minister of the president's office director, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, forcing him to turn down the nomination. (Reuters)
