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Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi (R) meets with senior Yemeni officials at the Republican Palace in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, on February 23, 2015. (EPA/Stringer)

Hadi to form new government, declare Aden as capital of Yemen: sources

by Arafat Madabish | Feb 23, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—One day after his reported escape from house arrest in Sana’a, Yemen’s Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi is taking steps to form a new interim government to run the country’s affairs from the southern city of Aden, which he will soon declare as the new...

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Heavily armed Yemenis guard the entrance to the hotel where representatives of warring factions in Yemen are attending closed-door talks under UN auspices in Sana’’a, Yemen, on February 5, 2015. (EPA/Yahya Arhab)

Two-region federal state is solution to crisis: former South Yemen leader

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Feb 6, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Former South Yemen President Ali Nasser Muhammad has said he would accept an invitation to chair a presidential council to fill the power vacuum in Yemen only if political factions endorsed a two-region federal state solution to the crisis....

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Protesters chant slogans against Houthi Shi’ite rebels who hold the capital, Sana’a, on January 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Southern Yemen moves towards secession as Houthis call for reconciliation

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 28, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a and Aden, Reuters/Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Southern Al-Hirak secessionist movement is poised to take further steps towards breaking away from the rest of the country and restoring the former state of South Yemen, according to political sources in the country....

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Yemenis demonstrate against the Houthis in the center of the capital Sanaa yesterday (Reuters)

Yemen: Southern secessionists step up Aden protests on independence day

by Arafat Madabish | Nov 30, 2014 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Thousands of Yemenis in the country’s southern region are continuing protests in the southern port city of Aden, calling for independence from the rest of the country, on the 47th anniversary of Yemen’s independence from Britain which saw it...

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Yemeni protesters chant slogans against Houthi rebels during a rally on September 30, 2014 in the capital Sana’a. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS)

Opinion: The Roots of the Yemeni Crisis

by Ali Ibrahim | Nov 12, 2014 | Opinion

Ever since the union of North and South Yemen was declared in 1990, political conflicts and differences in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country have never ceased, reaching their climax in the 1994 bloody civil war between former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the...