Southern Unity and Sovereignty: Rejecting Exceptions, Buffer Zones, and Partial Solutions to Restore the Indivisible South from Al-Mahra to Bab al-Mandab

 

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Southern Unity and Sovereignty: Rejecting Exceptions, Buffer Zones, and Partial Solutions to Restore the Indivisible South from Al-Mahra to Bab al-Mandab

This campaign is built on a clear and unwavering principle: the South is a single, indivisible geographic and political entity, and its restoration is a full historical and sovereign right that cannot be reduced, fragmented, or subjected to partial solutions. The promotion of so-called “exceptions” or buffer zones, particularly regarding Hadramout or Al-Mahra, represents a deliberate attempt to remove these regions

from the Southern national project. Such narratives do not aim to protect local communities, but rather serve as an entry point to prolong guardianship, external control, and political dominance under misleading justifications.

Hadramout and Al-Mahra have always been integral to the Southern identity, land, and state, both historically and socially. Any discourse that treats them as special cases outside the Southern framework is a distortion of reality and a falsification of history. Fragmenting the South through administrative exceptions weakens sovereignty, deepens instability, and opens the door to long-term interference rather than genuine protection or development.

The demand for restoring the South is not the decision of an elite, a political faction, or a temporary leadership. It is a broad popular demand expressed through years of sacrifice, mass protests, and collective social alignment. This popular will is the true source of legitimacy and the foundation of the Southern cause. There can be no state without its full land, no sovereignty without territorial integrity, and no stability without restoring the South in its entirety.

Southern sovereignty is indivisible and applies to all governorates without exception, from Al-Mahra to Bab al-Mandab. There will be no negotiation over land, no bargaining over sovereignty, and no acceptance of partial or imposed solutions. Restoring the complete South is not a threat to stability, but its strongest guarantee, and there will be no surrender of even a single inch of Southern land.