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SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s president replaced security officials and some ministers late on Tuesday, state media reported, in an apparent move to reduce the influence of former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh following an attempt on the defense minister’s life. A car bomb targeting the motorcade of Defense Minister Major General Muhammad Nasir Ahmad in Sanaa [...]
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Yemen’s president replaces security chiefs after Sanaa attack
Posted by admin on September 12th, 2012
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No Comments »Yemen’s Hadi vows to defeat al Qaeda, unify army
Posted by admin on May 5th, 2012
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi vowed on Saturday to defeat an al Qaeda-linked insurgency in the south of the poor Arab country to allow thousands of displaced people to return home. Militants linked to al Qaeda have seized significant chunks of territory in the semi-desert regions of southern Yemen in recent [...]
Yemen’s Saleh returns home after U.S. medical visit
Posted by admin on February 25th, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Yemen’s outgoing president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, returned to his home in Sanaa late on Friday after receiving medical treatment in the United States, a spokesman for Yemen’s embassy in Washington said. Saleh, 69, arrived in the United States in January to receive treatment for wounds inflicted during an assassination attempt last year. [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: After, Home, Medical, Returns, Saleh, U.S., Visit, Yemen's No Comments »Official: Yemen’s Saleh returning home after vote
Posted by admin on February 17th, 2012
A U.S. official says Yemen’s longtime strongman will wait for a vote next week on a new interim president before returning home. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: 'official', After, Home, returning, Saleh, vote, Yemen's No Comments »Yemen’s leader allowed to come to US
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2012
The Obama administration will allow Yemen’s outgoing president to come to the U.S. temporarily for medical treatment, a move aimed at easing the political transition in Yemen, a key counterterrorism partner. Tweet This Post
Thousands protest at immunity for Yemen’s Saleh
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2012
SANAA (Reuters) – Thousands of Yemenis protested in Sanaa on Sunday against an immunity law protecting outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh from prosecution and demanded he be put on trial for offences they say he committed during his 33-year rule. In the south of the unstable and impoverished country, four al Qaeda-linked militants and one [...]
