Aden, Arabie. Mon cœur bat à l’est d’Aden.
Les nouvelles depuis quelques jours s’empirent et mes souvenirs tournoient jusqu’au vertige. Oren Kessler sur Twitter : "The logo of Yemen's triumphant Houthis: Allahu akbar Death to America Death to Israel Damn the Jews Victory to Islam. Yémen : accord de fin de crise conclu entre le président et les miliciens chiites. YEMEN. Les miliciens chiites s'emparent du palais présidentiel. La puissante milice chiite au Yémen s'est emparée mardi 20 janvier du palais présidentiel à Sanaa et encerclait la résidence du chef de l'Etat.
Les combats entre miliciens et soldats se poursuivaient dans la soirée, ont indiqué des témoins. Il n'était pas possible dans l'immédiat de connaître le sort du chef de l'Etat Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Le patron de l'ONU Ban Ki-moon a appelé à un arrêt immédiat des combats, tandis que le Conseil de sécurité était réuni à huis clos pour évoquer l'interminable crise dans ce pays meurtri par de multiples conflits et où est basée l'une des branches les plus dangereuses du réseau Al-Qaïda. Appelés houthis, les combattants de la milice Ansaruallah, qui contrôlent depuis septembre une grande partie de la capitale, se sont emparés du palais présidentiel dans le sud de Sanaa, a annoncé un responsable militaire : Les houthis sont entrés dans le complexe et pillent des armes dans les dépôts.
" Adam Baron (adammbaron) sur Twitter. Yémen: trois otages finlandais et autrichien libérés. Postcard From Yemen. Strike hits Yemen ahead of national dialogue - Middle East - Al Jazeera English - Pale Moon. Thousands of supporters of separtists in southern Yemen have rallied to protest against a national dialogue starting on Monday, demanding that their region be allowed to secede from the north.
Protesters carrying placards saying "No dialogue under occupation! , Independence is our choice! " demonstrated in the port city of Aden on Sunday evening, waving flags of the formerly independent South Yemen which was united with the north in 1990. "We are here by the thousands to reject the dialogue as it is an issue of northerners and those southerners who are involved in it do not represent the people," Khaled Junaidi, an activist, told the AFP news agency. Yemeni authorities deployed police to protect government buildings and foreign consulates in the city. Activists said protesters also gathered in Moukalla, capital of the southeast Shabwa province.
More than 500 Yemeni delegates are expected to attend that meeting. Calls for secession Major challenges. Woman from Yemen. Caricatures highlight perceptions on Yemen's transition. Suicide bombers kills 45 in Yemen, weeks after army declared victory - CSMonitor.com - Pale Moon. A suicide bomber struck at a wake in Yemen's southern city of Jaar overnight, killing at least 45 people and wounding dozens more, the defense ministry said, in the deadliest attack since the army declared victory over Islamist militants in June.
Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition The bomber appeared to have been targeting the head of a group of tribal fighters that sided with the Yemeni army during an offensive that drove Al Qaeda-linked militants from their strongholds in the southern province of Abyan. "This is a cowardly, criminal, terrorist attack," said Abyan governor Jamal al-Aqel, adding that an investigation was underway to determine the bomber's identity. Yemen’s Opposition Party Islah Faces Credibility Gap. Samuel Aranda for The New York Times Crowds in Sana, Yemen, stopped to pray in Change Square on Friday during a protest against President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his agreement to transfer power.
Its shifting alliances, reflecting different currents within the movement, helped keep Islah ahead of its opposition rivals in Yemen. That strategy also kept Islah out of power, unable to credibly offer an alternative to a government it was seen to be in league with. Now, with the increasing likelihood of Mr. Saleh’s exit, Islah, like Islamist organizations around the region, should be poised to win a strong showing at the polls.
Yemen's fear of collapse. Philip Eliason is a former diplomat who has worked on Libyan issues and is a member of the Advisory Board to the Macquarie University Centre for Middle East and North African Studies.
Yemen is a state of dynamic stasis. It has now had about seven months of political turmoil, many deaths, economic stagnation and rising internal security problems. Its national leadership — made up of political office holders, custodians of traditional authority, religious leaders and the pro-change youth movement — is divided and without a centre of gravity powerful enough to commence consolidation. Its president may soon return from his extended post-assassination-attempt hospitalisation in Saudi Arabia. Despite the daily bad news from Yemen, particularly in the south, Yemenis do not see their country as being on the way to collapse. The Political Notebook — On Saturday, Yemen’s state newspaper, Al... Yemenis admire Dr M and Malaysia. SANA'A: It was Mohamed Ahmad's first day to Tahrir Square to join the anti-government protesters.
And the 28-year-old tailor outdid himself. He stuck a number of small Yemeni flags on his head and wore a protest bandana as a tie. The tailoring business has been a bit slow of late because people are uncertain of what would happen in the future so they have been holding on to their money. Yemeni protesters vow to escalate into full-scale strife against president. SANAA, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Youth-led street protesters flared out at reform initiatives announced by the Yemeni president on Sunday, vowing to escalate their peaceful demonstration into a full-scale strife.
They said they will not leave the "Change Square" outside Sanaa University in the capital unless President Ali Abdullah Saleh leaves. "We will not go away from this protest square unless this tyrant leaves along with his corrupted regime which devastates the crops and nation," a protester named Mohamed Haidar told Xinhua. It came after Sunday's broadcasting on state TV of the latest decisions of Saleh's ruling party that the president will stay in office until 2013 and form a new government to draft a new constitution and an election law.
Om Mohamed, a mother attending the protest near Sanaa University, said "We swear to never return home until Saleh is deported and we will prosecute him for murdering our sons and husbands in the shooting on March 18. " FRANCE 24 - De plus en plus isolé, le président Saleh compte ses jours à la tête du pays. Why Obama isn't pushing for Yemen president to go: Al Qaeda.
Yemen: six 'facts' to question - 'If President Ali Abdullah Saleh falls, radical anti-American jihadists will take over in Yemen.' Yemen: If President Saleh is ousted, what comes next? - By Daniel Byman. As U.S. missiles slam into Libya, Saudi troops put down demonstrations in Bahrain, and Egypt holds its first free referendum, the dramatic, perhaps cataclysmic, change another Arab country—Yemen—is undergoing is lost in the mix.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled—in the loosest sense of that word—unruly Yemen since 1978, may soon go the way of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Should he fall, however, Yemen may become even more unstable, plunging the country into strife, perhaps even civil war, and increasing the risk of terrorism. Before the latest wave of revolutions swept the Arab world, three civil conflicts plagued Yemen. Nouvelles manifestations, réprimées par la police yéménite à Sanaa - Monde.
L opposition prête à dialoguer avec le pouvoir. Dans un communiqué, le Forum commun, une alliance de l'opposition parlementaire, invite les autorités yéménites à «retenir la leçon de ce qui se passe en Tunisie et en Egypte», où la grogne populaire a conduit à la chute des chefs d'Etat de ces pays.
Au moins 84 blessés dans des affrontements au Yémen. Yemen in Crisis: A Special Report. “We do not have a military role in this conflict.” Really? Phillip Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State. Almost a year ago, US Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley opened a press conference: “First of all, the United States is deeply concerned by the formal indictment on charges of inciting subversion of the well-known Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo on December 10th, which was, ironically, International Human Rights Day.” This week, ironically on the same day Crowley announced World Press Freedom Day, the US government allegedly began negotiations with Sweden to extradite Julian Assange of wikileaks to the United States so that he could be prosecuted for making classified documents available to the public.
Crise interne ou conflit régional?