SANAA — Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi resigned on Thursday, a government source said.

Just before, Prime Minister Khaled Baha offered his government’s resignation to Hadi, saying it did not want to be dragged into “an unconstructive political maze”.

This was an apparent reference to a stand-off between Hadi and Yemen’s powerful Houthi movement.

The Houthis abducted the President’s chief of staff over the weekend, then took over the presidential palace in Sanaa on Tuesday.