Money talks louder than al-Qaeda in Yemen
The Prime Minister’s decision to host an urgent international conference on Yemen at the end of the month will have surprised many. Britain certainly needs to pull its weight in Pakistan and in its former colonial possessions in Africa, for example, but why in Yemen? Because Britain is better equipped than anyone to understand how fragile the country has become, how much tension has been generated by the mismanaged union in 1990 of the formerly Marxist south with the military-tribal republic of the north and how easily a fragmentation of the country could play into al-Qaeda’s hands.
Before 1967 when the south became Marxist-ruled and Soviet-backed, that same south was under British rule.… Seguir leyendo »