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Yemen’s Opposition Party Islah Faces Credibility Gap - NYTimes.com
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.
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.
Yemen's fear of collapse
The Political Notebook — On Saturday, Yemen’s state newspaper, Al...
On Saturday, Yemen’s state newspaper, Al Jamahiriya, photoshopped a photo of regime supporters to make it look twice as big. Photo caption reads: “On the Friday of Tolerance.”
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. Anti-government protesters chanting slogans and holding up placards during a demonstration at Tahrir Square demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a, Yemen, yesterday. - Glenn Guan/The Star Marwan believed Malaysians owed it to all Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad , who during his 22-year tenure as Prime Minister, transformed Malaysia to the position it is today.
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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."Rien ne semble adoucir le vent de contestation anti-gouvernemental qui souffle sur le Yémen. Le président Ali Abdallah Saleh, au pouvoir depuis trente-deux ans, a promis des réformes et juré de ne pas briguer de nouveau mandat en 2013. Il s'est aussi engagé à défendre le pays, a limogé une partie de son gouvernement et a même proposé des élections anticipées.
FRANCE 24 - De plus en plus isolé, le président Saleh compte ses jours à la tête du pays
With Yemen looking like it could be the Middle East ’s next domino, the United States faces one of the bigger challenges of the region’s ongoing revolution. Skip to next paragraph President Obama has come down on the side of protesting populations more or less quickly as uprisings have mushroomed from Tunisia to Egypt and beyond. But Mr. Obama has refrained from joining Yemeni protesters and one-time government loyalists in calls for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.
Why Obama isn't pushing for Yemen president to go: Al Qaeda - CSMonitor.com
Yemen: six 'facts' to question - 'If President Ali Abdullah Saleh falls, radical anti-American jihadists will take over in Yemen.' - CSMonitor.com
1. 'If President Ali Abdullah Saleh falls, radical anti-American jihadists will take over in Yemen.' President Saleh has reigned over, cultivated, and reveled in increasing chaos. The tide of public opinion is now clearly against his rule.
Yemen: If President Saleh is ousted, what comes next? - By Daniel Byman - Slate Magazine
Washington has increasingly pushed the Yemeni government to be more aggressive against AQAP, but Saleh saw, correctly, that the Houthis and southerners posed a greater threat to his rule. AQAP has killed dozens of Yemenis, but in a country rife with violence, that is not a huge number. Also, and even more cynically, the AQAP presence brings with it massive U.S. financial and military assistance—too much success against AQAP is not in the Yemeni government's interest. In fact, at times, Saleh had worked with jihadist groups linked to al-Qaida against southerners and other domestic enemies.
Nouvelles manifestations, réprimées par la police yéménite à Sanaa - Monde - Nouvelobs.com
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20 Minutes Online - L opposition prête à dialoguer avec le pouvoir - News
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. Il met en garde contre «un soulèvement populaire» au Yémen, pays frappé par «la corruption, la pauvreté, le chômage, la répression, l'injustice et la tyrannie», selon le communiqué. Le Forum commun se dit «prêt à signer dès cette semaine un accord- cadre sur (la reprise du) dialogue national» au point où il s'était arrêté le 31 octobre dans le cadre du comité du dialogue, et accepter les réformes annoncées récemment par le président Ali Abdallah Saleh. Mais en gage de bonne foi, le Forum demande au président de limoger tous les membres de sa famille et ses proches parents des fonctions de responsabilité qu'ils occuperaient dans l'armée, la police, le gouvernement ou dans les conseils régionaux.Democracy Digest » Yemen: parties eclipsed by civil society
At least five people were reported killed in Yemen today as security forces and government supporters attacked protesters gathered for the largest of eight consecutive days of demonstrations. President Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared to have defused an earlier round of protests by promising a dialogue on reform with opposition parties. But the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt saw the parties eclipsed by civil society groups and ordinary students which from events in Cairo. Tawakkol Karman, the leader of Women Journalists Without Chains, has been in the forefront of the protests, despite receiving several threats to her life.Manifestation hostile au président du Yémen Ali Abdallah Saleh devant l'université de Sanaa. Les forces de sécurité sont intervenus jeudi pour disperser les protestataires dans la capitale et à Taïz, dans le sud du pays, tirant à balles réelles et lançant des gaz lacrymogènes. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
Au moins 84 blessés dans des affrontements au Yémen - LExpress.fr
Yemen president fires government amid unrest, state media says - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, facing pressure from the street to step down, fired his government on Sunday, the Yemeni state news agency said. Preceding the decision, Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations Abdullah Alsaidi resigned his post as defections picked up steam after snipers firing from rooftops shot dead up to 52 anti-government protesters on Friday. In Sanaa, mourners started burying the dead in side-by-side graves in a small cemetery near a military camp in the Arabian Peninsula state, where tens of thousands of people have protested for weeks against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule."Protesters said they had caught at least seven snipers carrying government identity cards who they said had been involved in the shooting, but Saleh denied this, blaming gunmen among the protesters for the violence. " by Mar 20
AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images A crisis in Yemen is rapidly escalating. A standoff centered on the presidential palace is taking place between security forces in the capital city of Sanaa while embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh continues to resist stepping down, claiming that the "majority of Yemeni people" support him. While a Western-led military intervention in Libya is dominating the headlines, the crisis in Yemen and its implications for Persian Gulf stability is of greater strategic consequence. Saudi Arabia is already facing the threat of an Iranian destabilization campaign in eastern Arabia and has deployed forces to Bahrain in an effort to prevent Shiite unrest from spreading. With a second front now threatening the Saudi underbelly, the situation in Yemen is becoming one that the Saudis can no longer leave on the backburner.
Yemen in Crisis: A Special Report | STRATFOR
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