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New resolve?
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International,14 October, 1999
PRESIDENT Ali Abdullah Salih of Yemen has embarked on his new five-year term with a promise to fight corruption and chaos. "There is no value to any laws if they are not implemented," he told…
Mass arrests
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International,27 September, 2002
THE AL-QAEDA spotlight has once again turned towards Yemen, following a series of arrests in Pakistan and the United States as well as Yemen itself.
Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni, was arrested in…
Who sank the Cole?
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International,10 November, 2000
DAMAGE to the American destroyer, USS Cole - bombed in Aden harbour on October 12 - has proved far more extensive than early reports suggested, and the $1 billion warship may have to be…
Speech by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali following the proclamation of presidential and legislative election results, October 26, 1999. Ben Ali had been re-elected with 99.44% of the vote.
October 26, 1999
Full text:
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Fellow citizens,
I am…
This was the last speech to the Tunisian people by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali before his resignation four days later.
January 10, 2011
Full text:
Citizens, citizens,
I am addressing you today, inside and outside the country, following disturbances and acts of violence and degradation that…
Crisis could open door for Yemen's Islamists
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in The Guardian, 11 October 1993
BARELY six months after Yemen's first multi-party elections, the country is in the throes of political crisis. The vice-president is on strike and, if a constitutional tangle cannot…
Democratisation derailed
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International,26 November, 1999
THE AFTERMATH of Yemen's presidential election, in which Ali Abdullah Salih was returned to power with a 96% majority, raises questions about the likely course of democracy in the country…
Yemeni war ends as rebel leaders flee
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in The Guardian, 8 July 1994
THE war in Yemen ended yesterday with southern rebel leaders fleeing Aden by boat under the cover of darkness to an uncertain future.
By daybreak, the forces of President Ali Abdullah Saleh -…
Manifesto issued by the political bureau of the Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique (RCD), 27 October, 1999.
27 October 1999
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Le Bureau politique du Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique, réuni, aujourd'hui 27 octobre 1999, à laMaison du Rassemblement, après avoir pris…
Detectives "told to quit Yemen on next flight"
by Brian Whitakerand Vikram Dodd
Originally published in The Guardian, 6 January 1999
TWO Scotland Yard detectives investigating the deaths of four Western hostages kidnapped in Yemen have been told to leave the country, it was reported last night.
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ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
