Victoria Clark

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On and off for the past few weeks, thousands of youths draped in pink scarves and ribbons have been out protesting in Yemen’s capital, Sana, making it look as if that country is next in line after Tunisia and perhaps Egypt for regime change. But conditions in Yemen for ousting another elderly strongman and his big, greedy family after decades of misrule are not proving as favorable as one might expect.

Indeed, Ali Abdullah Saleh — a former army officer who has been president since 1978, when his predecessor was assassinated by means of an exploding suitcase — is proving less of a klutz than his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoOriente PróximoInternacionalTerrorismo Internacional,

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 »