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Houthis and their issues have been part of the “axis of resistance” since the early 1990s, and they are now part of the fight against Israel, and anyone else who crosses their path.
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An 11-year-old Yemeni girl, Nada al-Ahdal ran away from home after hearing her mother had planned an arranged marriage for her. The video shows Nada speaking out against her arranged marriage.
Reports this morning indicate that a South African couple have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in the city of Taiz. Yemen experienced localised pro-democracy protests during the Arab Spring of 2011, which resulted in former President Ali Abdullah Saleh hand over to his deputy, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Since that time, the poor neighbour of Saudi Arabia […]
Yemen is situated on the southernmost tip of the Arabian peninsula, neighbouring Oman and Saudi Arabia, and is a geographer’s spitting distance across the Red Sea from one particularly troubled Arab state – Egypt. With revolution standing a fair chance of spreading to Yemen, WikiPedia has stepped in to nail a prediction.
When Tunisians marched en masse a few weeks ago, their long-serving president fled the country. The success of the popular protests have since set off a wave of dischord across North Africa. Yemen is fast following Tunisia’s lead, while Egypt is reportedly on its last legs, parliamentarily-speaking. Shit, as they say, is going down.