yemen update

[nadinbrzezinski]

Yemen rallies in support of Egypt protests

Dozens of people took to the streets in Yemen on Saturday to support the Egyptians' protest against President Hosni Mubarak.

Demonstrators, including opposition politicians and journalists, marched toward the Egyptian Embassy in Sana'a, also shouting slogans against President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, media reports said. CNN said some 100 people took part in the demonstration.

About ten demonstrators were seriously injured in clashes with police and Saleh's supporters, the Xinhua news agency said, quoting witnesses.

Riot police blocked the street leading to the Egyptian Embassy before the demonstrators arrived, the Yemen Post newspaper said.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20110130/162373760.html

Source for this is Russian... so perhaps they are down playing this...

Here from the Christian Science Monitor


Are Yemen's protests going to bring another revolution?

Sanaa, Yemen
Two days after Yemen’s political opposition called for a national uprising against the leadership of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, thousands of protesters took to the streets in the capital city of Sanaa, calling for the removal of what they view as a persistently corrupt regime.

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A crowd of men, wearing pink bandanas in support of Tunisia’s recent revolution, flooded the streets in four different locations in Sanaa. They waved Yemen’s red, white, and black flag and carried posters that read, “We’ve had enough suppression," "We’ve had enough corruption,” and “We are next” – written above a picture of the Tunisian flag.

“I am here today to express that we need a change in the president, that we refuse corruption, and that we are against constitutional changes that will allow the president to be president for life,” says Ali Al Hossany, an employee at Yemen’s education ministry.

But while protesters have drawn inspiration from Tunisia's revolution, the real effect of Yemen's protests is likely to be more modest than regime change. Rather, Yemen's coalition of opposition parties seeks to tap the post-Tunisia revolution energy in Yemen to pressure the ruling party to make reforms that they had sought months before the Tunisian uprising began.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0127/Are-Yemen-s-protests-going-to-bring-another-revolution

Now this is why it is important to see what sources. Anything coming from Russia or China will underplay this...be aware of that.

[gateley]

1. Are they officially calling the uprising in Egypt a Revolution now? It seems as

though they were tiptoeing around it. Demonstrations, Protesters, stuff like that.

What's going on today?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. more of the same

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/29/live-blog-301-egypt-protests

[gateley]

3. GREAT site! Can't access the live broadcast online now, not alone and can't turn

up the sound, but this is the next best thing. Thanks!

I don't want them to give up!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. It will be soon, relatively, over

it depends on how orderly Mubarak wants this... a plane, or a legacy.

If he is forced to the former, it could get really messy. The latter, means calling for elections in three months, and not running... (what ended up happening in South Africa)

[gateley]

5. A plane meaning he just leaves? That would be instantly gratifying but I see your point.

An election would be the best way to go.