Anti-government protests erupt in Yemen. Anti-government rallies hit Yemen - Middle East. Tens of thousands of people in Yemen have taken to the streets in the country's capital, calling for an end to the government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president. Inspired by recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, opposition members and youth activists rallied at four different locations in Sanaa on Thursday, chanting for Saleh, who has been in power for 32 years, to step down. "Enough being in power for [over] 30 years," protesters shouted during the demonstrations. They also referred to the ouster of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, saying he was "gone in just [over] 20 years".
"No to extending [presidential tenure]. No to bequeathing [the presidency]," they chanted. An opposition activist said that the staging of the demonstration in four separate parts of the capital was aimed at distracting the security forces. One area chosen for the protest was outside Sanaa University. 'Not like Tunisia' Saleh was re-elected in September 2006 for a seven-year mandate. FRANCE 24 - L'opposition se déclare prête à reprendre le dialogue avec le pouvoir. Manifestations au Yémen contre le président Saleh, actualité Monde : Le Point. Des centaines de personnes ont manifesté, jeudi, contre le régime du président Ali Abdallah Saleh, à l'appel de l'opposition à Aden dans le sud du Yémen, avant d'être dispersées par la police, a rapporté le correspondant de l'AFP.
D'autres villes du sud du Yémen ont également été le théâtre de manifestations contre le pouvoir central à l'appel du Forum Commun, coalition de l'opposition qui a organisé un important rassemblement dans la capitale, Sanaa. Dans le quartier de Crater à Aden, des centaines de personnes se sont rassemblées, brandissant des banderoles "Les corrompus et les tyrans doivent partir", "Le temps du changement est venu". Mais les forces de l'ordre, qui étaient déployées en force depuis le matin, ont dispersé les manifestants lorsqu'ils ont voulu entamer leur marche, tirant des balles réelles et des grenades lacrymogènes. Des témoins ont affirmé que deux manifestants avaient été blessés. Arrestations. New protests erupt in Yemen - Middle East. Dozens of activists calling for the ouster of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's president, have clashed with government supporters in Sanaa, the country's capital. Plainclothes police also attacked the demonstrators, who marched to the Egyptian embassy in Sanaa on Saturday chanting "Ali, leave leave" and "Tunisia left, Egypt after it and Yemen in the coming future".
The chants were referring to the ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia early this month and to continuing demonstrations against Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt. No casualties have been reported in the Yemen clashes. Tawakel Karman, a female activist who has led several protests in Sanaa during the past week, said that a member of the security forces in civilian clothes tried to attack her with a dagger and a shoe but was stopped by other protesters. "We have the Southern Movement in the south, the (Shia) Huthi rebels in the north, and parliamentary opposition," all of which are calling for political change, Karman said. Protests erupt in Yemen - Middle East. Protests Hold in Southern Provinces- Yemen Post English Newspaper Online. Thousands rally in Yemen's capital - Middle East. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across Yemen for the fourth straight day, demanding political reforms and the downfall of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country's long-serving president.
The 3,000-strong throng of demonstrators in the capital, Sanaa, comprising students, human rights activists and lawyers clad in black robes, clashed with police and pro-government supporters on Monday. Rival groups, armed with clubs and rocks, were seen facing off after supporters of Saleh reportedly confronted the protesters. At least three people were injured, including one stabbed with a traditional Yemeni dagger, in fighting outside Sanaa's university where protesters chanted: "A revolution of free opinion ...
A revolution of freedom ... Further chants of "After Mubarak, Ali" and "No corruption after today" reverberated around the city. "It's very tense on the streets here," Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting form Sanaa, said. Public squares blocked Unrest spreads The US connection. Une opposante yéménite arrêtée après avoir appelé à manifester contre le pouvoir. Yemen : protest in south #Yemen #Egypt #jan25 #Tunisia. Yemen clerics urge unity government - Middle East. A group of senior clerics in Yemen has called for the formation of a national unity government in order to save the country from chaos.
The influential figures are demanding a transitional unity government that would see the opposition represented in key ministries, followed by elections in six months. They say the move would place Yemen in the same situation as Egypt and Tunisia, without suffering bloodshed. Their comments on Thursday came amid fresh clashes between thousands of pro- and anti-government protesters in Sanaa, the capital.
Dozens of pro-democracy protesters, including two suffering gunshot wounds, have been injured in the confrontations. "Police are trying to form lines to separate protesters and pro-government supporters - but they're also attempting to disperse crowds with live ammunition, a sign of the very tense situation in the capital ahead of calls for tomorrow's 'Friday of Fury'," said Hashem Ahelbara, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Sanaa.
Visit postponed. Yemen president not to extend term - Africa. Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president, has backed down on a plan to rule his impoverished Arab country for life after mass protests demanding his ouster. In an announcement on Wednesday, Saleh said he plans for elections in April had been scrapped along with constitutional amendments that would have seen him become president for life. "I will not extend my mandate and I am against hereditary rule," he said. The move would bring an end to a three-decade rule when his current term expires in 2013. Eyeing protests that brought down Tunisia's leader and threaten to topple Egypt's president, Saleh vowed not to pass on the reins of power to his son. "No extension, no inheritance, no resetting the clock," Saleh said during an emergency session of parliament and the consultative council ahead of a "day of rage" organised by civil society groups and opposition leaders for Thursday in all provinces. 'Day of rage' "We consider this initiative positive and we await the next concrete steps.
Yemen protests enter fifth day - Middle East. Thousands of people have protested in Yemen for a fifth consecutive day to demand political reforms and the overthrow of the country's president. They were met by pro-government supporters, who waded into Tuesday's protest in Sanaa with batons, sparking violent clashes in which three people were hurt, the AFP news agency said.
The loyalists were joined by plainclothes police wielding electric tasers, who sent the crowd of around 3,000 protesters, mostly students and rights activists, fleeing, witnesses said. The demonstrators chanted slogans against Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president, such as "Down with the president's thugs". "What we are seeing is thousands of pro-government protesters, armed with batons, attacking the pro-democracy protesters and dispersing the crowd using violence," Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra reported from the scene of the protests. A heavy police force and about 2,000 pro-government supporters had positioned themselves at the city centre. Social media. Yemen's president: Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh says he'll leave office before elections - latimes.com. Reporting from Beirut — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh pledged Wednesday not to run in 2013 elections and to remove his son as his likely successor, an apparent concession to opposition groups before a day of planned protests in the capital, Sana.
Saleh announced that he would "freeze" proposed constitutional amendments that were to make him Yemen's president for life and would also postpone April parliamentary elections widely dismissed as rigged in the government's favor. FOR THE RECORD: An earlier version of this article said that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told parliament he would step down ahead of 2013 elections. He actually said he would not seek another term. "No to hereditary rule and no to life presidency," the 64-year-old president told parliament, according to the official Saba news agency. "Regardless of the circumstances, I will make concessions one after the other for the sake of this nation," he said in the 17-minute address. Daragahi@latimes.com. Yemen-calls-day-rage-draw-20000-sanaa from rawstory.com - StumbleUpon.
By Stephen C. WebsterThursday, February 3, 2011 10:17 EDT SANAA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Yemenis squared off in peaceful protests for and against the government on Thursday during an opposition-led “Day of Rage,” a day after President Ali Abdullah Saleh offered to step down in 2013. The peaceful protests faded out by midday as planned, suggesting Yemenis outside the traditional opposition activist core had not been motivated to transform the rally into a self-sustaining, Egyptian-style mass upheaval.
Still, the opposition drew more than 20,000 people in Sanaa, the biggest crowd since a wave of demonstrations hit the Arabian Peninsula state two weeks ago, inspired by protests that toppled Tunisia’s ruler and threaten Egypt’s president. “The people want regime change,” anti-government protesters shouted as they gathered near Sanaa University, a main rallying point. “What the president offered yesterday was just theater. Should protests widen, the stakes would be high for Saleh. Yemenis square off in rival Day of Rage protests. Yémen. Yémen: l’effet domino? » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. Les soulèvements populaires en Tunisie et en Égypte en préfigurent-ils d'autres dans des pays similaires?
Le point sur la situation au Yémen. Les mobilisations du 3 février au Yémen ont rassemblé des centaines de milliers de Yéménites à travers le pays. Corroborent-elles l’hypothèse d’une « contagion » des révoltes tunisienne et égyptienne à la seule République de la péninsule Arabique ? Si les protestations en sont solidaires, elles s’inscrivent pourtant dans des dynamiques internes spécifiques au champ politique yéménite. Jeudi matin à Sanaa, des milliers de personnes se sont rendues aux portes de l’université pour demander le changement, la réforme du système politique et la lutte contre la corruption, voire, de façon plus minoritaire, le départ immédiat du président Ali Abdallah Saleh, au pouvoir depuis 1978. Le Yémen, unique République de la péninsule arabique Source: Wikimedia Commons Des mouvements marqués par le contexte politique local Photographies par Jameel Subay.