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In early August, the UN-brokered talks in Kuwait on Yemen's reconciliation ended with the government and Houthi rebels failing to come to an agreement and the rebels forming the Supreme Political Council with a prospect of ruling the country.
According to the Press TV broadcaster, Yemenis carried national flags and posters reading "Reforms are the most efficient popular force in the face of enemies" during the rally near the Presidential Palace in Sanaa.
Earlier in the day, Saleh Ali Sammad, the head of the Houthis' new political body, announced plans to create a government in the near future as well as promote Yemen's reconciliation.
Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict between the government and the Houthi rebels backed by army units loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Since March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition of mostly Persian Gulf countries has been carrying out airstrikes against the Houthis at the Yemeni government's request.
Comment: RFE/RL characterizes the rallies as "hundreds of thousand". However many it is, it's the Houthis/Saleh who have popular support, not the Saudi-stooge government-in-exile. Since the suspension of pace talks, the Saudis have intensified their illegal airstrikes. With a constitutionally legal new Houthi/Saleh government and an avalanche of bad PR exposing Saudi war crimes and brutality, it may be time for the U.S. to cut its strings of support to the totalitarian Saudi regime's war of aggression on Yemen before they become even more of a liability: Pentagon withdraws assets from Riyadh to Bahrain amid mounting death toll in Saudi-led Yemen war