If secession happens, that the GCC would support it to counter Iran and the Houthis in the north

defensenews /By Awad Mustafa

The leadership crisis in Yemen and the death of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has raised alarms all over Middle Eastern capitals concerning the Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC's) security setting.

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SOUTHERNERS MARK RECONCILIATION AND TOLERANCE DAY

Yemen Times/Fajr Alganoob/Rebounds

SANA’A,  Jan.12— Southerners have been converging on Aden governorate since Sunday to mark the eighth anniversary of Reconciliation and Tolerance Day on Tuesday.

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An Interview with Huda al-‘Attas

 Middle East Research and Information Project

by Anne-Linda Amira Augustin

Huda al-‘Attas (b. 1973) is an activist for women’s rights, an author of short stories and a teacher of sociology at the University of Aden. Aden was the capital of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY)

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemns attacks the Yemeni army on civilians, in Al Dhale

Fajr Aljanoob- Rebounds 

GENEVA (26 February 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemned on Wednesday the indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks affecting civilians by Yemen’s armed forces in Al Dhale Governorate, south of Yemen, and called for unrestricted humanitarian access to the area.

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Yemen’s Creation of Federal Republic Leaves Major Grievances Unresolved

 World Politics Review\
Dr. Alexandra Lewis

Earlier this month, Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi announced on state television that the country would be partitioned into six regions and renamed the Federal Republic of Yemen. The move came at the end of Yemen’s 10-month National Dialogue Conference (NDC), a process that was intended to

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Southern Yemen: “We demand a referendum”

  The Atlantic Post 

By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem

This month, South Yemen witnessed deadly clashes between Yemeni troops and secessionist militants.

On Friday January 17, the southern militants ambushed a military vehicle, killing two soldiers and wounding four others in the town of Daleh, 280 kilometers south of the capital.

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Yemen parties warn of secession of south

  

Sana’a: Two of the biggest political parties in Yemen have deplored any move to give southern Yemenis more autonomy that could lead to separation of the country.

The General People’s Congress, the party of the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the Islamist Islah party said that they deem secession as a “red line” and any solution to the southern issue should be in “the framework of unity”.

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Yemen’s fitful dialogue

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It wasn't too long ago when Yemen launched its ostensibly inclusive National Dialogue process. The conference, which started on March 18, was meant to mend the wounds of the society and lead to the promulgation of the Yemeni constitution. But whoever thought that six months were sufficient for reconciliation and change was overly ambitious. The conference uncovered deep-rooted differences that confounded its participants and further polarized discussions, leading to a further indefinite delay.

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South Yemen issue back on the agenda at dialogue conference

 Political groups taking part in Yemen's National Dialogue Conference (NDC) once again discussed the future of south Yemen on Saturday, with the emergence of two different schools of thought as to the future of the region.Some parties backed the idea of giving people living in the southern areas their right

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South Yemen gives you a clear picture of both a city under occupation

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 Feature by Mirfat Sulaiman

South Yemen: a clash of wills
 The struggle in South Yemen for independence from the North continues to be way down the agenda of the international media. Mirfat Sulaiman reports on a rising revolutionary tide which no amount of repression seems capable of stemming.

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Yemen’s Southern Intifada

Posted By Peter Salisbury  Foreign Policy

In early February, a car made its way along the winding road from the southern Yemeni port city of Aden to Dhale, a dusty mountain town of traditional mud-brick houses. As the car sped toward its destination, the flags and checkpoints increased in regularity with every passing mile.

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In some parts of Yemen, 'the free south lives'

The Christian Science Monitor By Adam Baron

Yemen was reunified more than two decades ago, but some parts of the formerly independent south never really accepted rule from Sanaa – and momentum to reverse unification is building.

Al Dhale, Yemen

In the former southern capital, it’s an aspirational statement, a manifestation of increasing support for secession among southerners who want to reverse Yemen's 1990 reunification and restore independence to Yemen's south. But 80 miles north, the slogan almost reflects reality.

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Divisions threaten Yemen integrity

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A recent crackdown in Yemen against protesters calling for southern independence has inflamed tensions in the country, and divisions look set to deepen, says the BBC's Leana Hosea.

Of all the revolutions in the Arab world, the UN Security Council regards Yemen as a rare success story.

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Yemeni forces, separatists clash as the government tries to tighten grip over the south

The Washington Post

By Associated Press

Two separatists were killed in the clash that began as President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s supporters gathered in the main square of the city of Aden on Yemen’s southwest coast to send a message that the central government is in control of southern Yemen after years of lawlessness.

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Yemen arrests southern separatists ahead of rallies

 The Daily Star\Fajr Aljanoob Rebounds

ADEN: Police arrested two separatist leaders in south Yemen ahead of planned rival rallies marking the first anniversary of ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh's ouster, an official and activists said Wednesday.

Qassem Askar, a leader of the hardline faction of the separatist Southern Movement,

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New york time"The south is in the grip of a surging independence movement

   New york times\Fajr AljanoobRebounds

By ROBERT F. WORTH

The tents at the heart of this city’s Change Square are now almost empty of protesters, and the canvas flaps quietly in the breeze. Two years after the start of its democratic uprising, Yemen has a new president and is in the midst of a lumbering transition process that has been held up by the Obama administration as a model for resolving Syria’s bloody civil war.

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Message the people of the south to the UN Security Council

 Fajr Aljanoob(Special

In the seventh and eighth of this month, the masses came out in Aden, a major South southern provinces to deliver a clear message to the Security Council, who is in the Yemeni capital Sanaa that he did not negotiate under occupation state »

 The following video shows what people want in the south.

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Secession is not negotiable says South Yemen

Fajr-Aljanoob-Yemen Post Staff

As Yemen Central Government is defiantly refusing to discuss the possibility of secession with South Yemen, assuring both the international community and its citizens that the National Dialogue hold the answers to all of the nation's woes, southerners seem to have already made up their mind - secession.

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Separatists in mass rally in southern Yemen

Southern activists want the government to scrap 1990 deal that united the country

Gulf News\Sana’a

: Tens of thousands of southern Yemenis took part in massive rallies on Sunday calling for autonomy for their region despite government sops designed to encourage them to engage in national dialogue.

The rallies were organised to commemorate ‘Reconciliation Day’, which is intended to

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The queen of Yemen's newspaper remains silent

Radio Netherlands

Judith Spiegel

The press in Yemen has been under siege since conflict broke out in the south of the country in 2009. Eight of the country’s leading independent daily and weekly newspapers, including Al-Ayyam, were banned. The government also imposed informal censorship to prevent reporting about protestors and activists in the south. The old Yemeni regime fell in 2011, but the Al-Ayyam newspaper remains closed.

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