Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and seven other ministers returned to Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Wednesday, Reuters reported, in efforts to reestablish a government on home soil.
The move follows the victory for pro-government forces in July when they reclaimed the southern stronghold.
"Khaled Bahah and the ministers who arrived with him are in Aden to stay permanently," government spokesman Rajeh Badi said.
At the top of the government's agenda is "the security file, reconstruction and incorporating the southern resistance into the army," Badi said at an Aden news conference on Wednesday, according to local al-Ghad.
The government was exiled in late March after Houthi rebels overtook Aden, but pro-government loyalists have recently pushed northward. Earlier this week the forces launched an offensive in the Marib province east of Sanaa to eventually retake the capital and drive the Houthi rebels out.
When Aden was overrun by Houthis and their allies, exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi fled to Saudi Arabia, which has been supporting the Yemeni government with coalition airstrikes against opposition forces.
