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Pro-democracy demonstrators hold a Yemeni flag during celebrations to mark the anniversary of an uprising against the regime of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa February 11, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayagh (YEMEN – Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST ANNIVERSARY)
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In this photo provided by Yemen’s Defense Ministry, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi signs the final approval on transforming Yemen into a federal state of six regions in Sana’a Yemen, on Monday, February 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Yemen’s Defense Ministry)
Opinion: Yemen and the Federal System
It does not matter whether a regime is republican, royal, centralized, federal, socialist or capitalist. What’s more important is a government’s ability to achieve justice and enjoy the approval of citizens. North Yemen was an inanimate regime until 1962. It became a...Caption:
A Yemeni man holds up the national flag during celebrations marking the third anniversary of the Yemeni revolution that toppled former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, at Sanaa University in the capital, on January 15, 2014. The Yemeni revolution came after the Tunisian Revolution and Egyptian Revolution of 2011. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED HUWAIS