A Yemen Built for Two?

Foreign Policy

BY LUKE SOMERS

With violent protests swelling in Egypt and fighting escalating in Syria, there's a sense these days that the Arab Spring has taken a dark turn. This week, Jamal Benomar, the U.N. envoy to Yemen, expressed similar concerns about Yemen, which is beset by 

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Long-exiled South Yemen leader Beidh defends his calls for secession

By Adam Baron | McClatchy Newspapers

BEIRUT — Ali Salem al Beidh was one of the chief architects of the agreement that united the northern Yemen Arab Republic with the southern People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen to create the country that exists today.           

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Norwegian political Says southerners Don´t let the regime in the North hijack your revolution

An interview with the Norwegian activist the Deputy of the chairman of the Red party in Norway, (Marielle Leraand) .

 Adenalghad newspaper Interview / Ayad Alshaibi

 -How the Red Norwegian party reads the recent visit of the United Nations Secretary Mr. Ban Ki-moon to Sana'a on 19 November?

This is a visit to the regime in the North, and doesn´t reflect the total picture of what is going on in Yemen.

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Thousands rally in southern Yemen for self-rule

SANAA, Yemen (AP) —

Thousands of Yemenis have rallied across the country's south to mark the 45th anniversary of independence from British occupation and demand autonomy from the north.

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Analysis: Dialogue and divisions in Yemen

humanitarian news and analysis

a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

.National dialogue set to start 15 November

.President squeezed between powerful factions

.Southern question could derail process

SANA’A, 6 November 2012 (IRIN) - Nearly a year after a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-brokered deal set Yemen on a theoretical path towards political transition, the country remains deeply divided amid increasing poverty.

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Demonstrators in Aden call for end to oppression(video)

Press TV.

Southern Yemenis have taken to the streets after Friday prayers in the Liberation Square of Aden, to call for the support of who they referred to as "The Oppressed People."

Southern protesters gather in their Liberation Square every Friday to push forward their demands, and to protest against what they call the continuous oppression of the South.

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Yemen: Journey to a land in limbo

The Financial Times By Abigail Fielding-Smith

Angry, nostalgic, fearful: a return to Aden reveals a people grappling with their nation’s future

A short while ago, I swept past the Victorian garrison church overlooking the port city of Aden in southwest Yemen for the first time in more than a year. The trickle of news which car bombs force out of this otherworldly place at the bottom of the Arabian peninsula, with its volcanic crags and strangely empty shoreline, had done nothing to prepare me for how much it had changed.

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Building a Yemeni state while losing a nation

  Foreign Policy(FP) Posted By Silvana Toska

the Southern Separatist Movement (the Hiraak) has become increasingly more vocal in rejecting the legitimacy of a unified state. Beside a weak central state   

During his recent visit to the United States, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi of Yemen expressed his concerns that if the National Dialogue -- a forum supposedly representing the major political players in Yemen -- fails, Yemen could slide into a civil war that will be worse than those in Somalia or Afghanistan.

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Returned South Yemen Leader: 'Peaceful Struggle' May Yet Win

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Summary:

Mohammed Ali Ahmed, a former South Yemeni leader who

 recently returned from exile, survived an assassination attempt on

 September 10. Al-Monitor's Farea al-Muslimi interviewed

Ahmed, who rarely speaks and remains mostly in seclusion, earlier

 this summer on topics ranging from al-Qaeda to South Yemen’s

 prospects for independence

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Yemen southern separatists to boycott national dialogue

YemenOnline.info

A Yemeni alliance of groups that want independence for the south of the country said in a statement Wednesday that they will boycott next month's national dialogue proposed by the government in Sanaa.

The Southern Movement "refuses to take part in the national dialogue conference" which will be held in mid-November,

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South Yemen: Divided Against Unity

Al-Akhbar

By: Jomana Farhat

Aden is currently the scene of intensive efforts from Yemen’s Southern Movement to reach a unified vision in light of the continuing dispute among its leaders over the best methods by which to achieve their demands.

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The Southern Challenge to Yemen’s National Dialogue

YemenOnline.info

The upcoming National Dialogue Conference is currently Yemen’s

 top national priority. Jamal Benomar, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Yemen, has rightly stated: “The success or failure of the national dialogue is likely to make or break Yemen’s transition.” 

Stakes are therefore very high amid widespread criticism that the national dialogue process has been exclusionary and opaque.

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Echoes of Iraq: Yemen’s War Against al-Qaeda Takes a Familiar Turn

Generals Saleh and Mohsen have been suspected of playing the al-

Qaeda card to settle personal disputes and further political objectives.

The time

By Casey Coombs / Sana'a 

 Tribal militias have joined the campaign against the local franchise of the radical movement. It may have helped oust Al-Qaeda from a few cities but it may not guarantee peace in the long run

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Did Al Qaeda really leave southern Yemen overnight?

Adam Baron | The Christian Science Monitor

Alaska Dispatch

Almost as suddenly as Al Qaeda-linked militants swept into the southern Yemeni towns of Jaar and Zinjibar more than one year ago, they disappeared, say residents who awoke Tuesday morning to find them gone

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Yemen's power vacuum could provide window for secessionists

The Christian Science Monitor                                               

By Adam Baron, Correspondent 

Many southerners never fully bought in to the unification of Yemen, made official in 1990, and they see the current political uncertainty as an opening to push for independence.

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Yemen: Enduring Conflicts, Threatened Transition

Middle East Report N°1253 Jul 2012

The International Crisis Group

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS

As messy as it has been and unfinished as it remains, Yemen’s transition accomplished two critical goals: avoiding a potentially devastating civil war and securing the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had ruled the impoverished country for over three decades. It also cracked the regime’s foundations, while making it possible to imagine new rules of the game

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Yemen factions invited to national dialogue: UN envoy

  FRANCE 24  

The UN envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, seen here in 2011, said that southern separatists and northern Shiite rebels have been invited to participate in a national dialogue set for November.

AFP - The UN envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, said on Friday

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Three Yemenis shot dead in pro-south marches: protesters(Video)

ADEN, Yemen (Reuters)(CNBC)

 - Yemeni security forces shot dead three men in south Yemen on Friday and wounded seven others at demonstrations by southern separatists, protest leaders said, but officials said protesters had attacked security personnel and soldiers.

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Yemeni armed forces tighten security in Aden.

 Shanghai Daily ADEN Yemen  

Yemeni armed forces tightened security measures on Friday evening in the country s southern port city of Aden after secessionists called for massive rallies to mark a civil war anniversary a police officer said

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Exclusive interview with the Norwegian political activist Ms. Mariel Leraand about the issue of

PNN - Palestine News Network

by:(Aden Alhgad) Ayad Al-shaibi- At first how you consider the situation in south Yemen and the southern movement which call for self determination and how you evaluate the Norwegian cooperation with this cause especially and the European cooperation in general?

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