SANAA, Yemen

Yemeni president-in-exile Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi on Monday appointed a new governor of the war-torn country’s southern Aden province three days after his supporters retook it from the Shia Houthi militia.

In a presidential decree issued from Riyadh, Hadi appointed Nayef al-Bakri, a former deputy governor of the province, to the post of governor, according to Yemen’s official news agency.

Al-Bakri had been one of the government officials who did not flee Aden when it was overrun by Houthi militiamen earlier this year.

On Friday, Khaled Bahah, Yemen’s vice-president and prime minister, declared that Aden had been “liberated” from the Houthis and allied forces loyal to ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Clashes, however, remain ongoing on the outskirts of the city, which is considered the country’s commercial and economic capital.