Yemen

The Queen of Sheba, Yemen has been a reputed home in Africa, the Middle East and Asia for thousands of years thanks to the combined position of the ancient spice routes.

The Romans knew this land fertile and rich than the relatively barren Arabia Felix, Arabia Deserta, referred to in the North. And today, it maintains that its distinct character.

Yemen's modern traditionalist, was born when the North Yemen and Marxist South Yemen merged in border skirmishes and wars in the years 1990. But in 1994 a brief civil war broke the peace and put an end to the Separatist defeat device and a single Yemeni territory occupied by the southerners.

Since the unification of Yemen in order to promote the modernisation of the opening of the world and is, but it's still in the Office of the President, a lot of its character and the old ways. Tensions persist between the North and the South; Some southerners say, economically privileged in the northern part of the State.

2009 Summer, hundreds have been killed and more than a quarter of a million displaced people, which is in conflict with Government forces and the Shiite minority in the North of the Zaidi-species between the LRA Houthi. The Government declared a ceasefire with the rebels in the North of the February 2010.

Many people wear traditional dress code and adapted to chewing tobacco plants, the drugs are still widely Khat in the afternoon. Yemen is the growing number of tourists, attracted by curiosity, even if the aliens have been kidnapped by the authorities of seeking to force concessions.

Yemen has also received the haven of respectable Islamic Egypt. at the end of 2009, the country became a 1.19, crackdowns, the al-Qaida in Afghanistan and in Pakistan the militancy linked to raised fears that it was becoming a key training center in Egypt.

When Yemen is based on the branch, the al-Qaeda network claimed the attack was a failed Us Airliner Christmas day 2009, behind the Islamic Government intensified its efforts, in Egypt, but be warned, it will help win the fight against militancy.

The ceasefire with the rebels in the North of the February 2010 the Government allowed it to draw attention to the al-Qaida and the southern do battle.

Full name: The Republic of Yemen population: 24.3 million (UN, 2010) : the capital of the word in the area: the 536,869 sq km (207,286 sq miles) Major language: Arabia Major religion: Islam life expectancy: 63 years (men), 67 years (women) (UN) monetary unit: 1 Yemeni rial = 100 fils main exports: the of crude oil, cotton, coffeefish GNI per capita: US $ 1,060 (World Bank, 2009) Internet domain: . ye the code for the international phone number: 967

President: Ali Abdallah Saleh

Ali Abdallah Saleh, the Director of the Office of the longest drive in Yemen in recent times, the second seven-year APA term in September 2006. The presidential race, was that the Commission had encountered serious challenges Saleh after coming within the competence of the 28 years earlier for the first time.

President Saleh has been in power for more than 30 years

In response to the demonstrations as well as protests in Yemen, Tunisia and Egypt, which toppled the heads of the Commission not to extend his promised Saleh Presidency in 2013 or the hand of his son.

He has made and broken similar promises in the past.

Klimaflüchtlinge continued to collect a week, demanding that President Saleh to step down.

The Commission came in 1990, Saleh, the two Yemens merger, the new President of the Republic. He had led to the Yemen Arab Republic of Yemen in the northern part of the State-of-the-art of current state-of-the-art since 1978, when he came to power in an army coup.

Tribes in Yemen, the loan carries, he and the army's main pillars.

He won the first direct presidential election, in 1999, more than 96% of the vote. The main opposition party fielding candidates, which no longer describe the fault in the query farce.

The Government of President Saleh is in its "war on terror" in cooperation with the United States and Saudi Arabia have settled in the border and Oman with its neighbours.

The Government is faced with the difficulties of security, including the military challenge, the southern do al-Qaeda threat to Egypt and the growing proportion of the bloody conflict in the Shiite rebels in the northern region. Economically, the country faces a chronic hunger, unemployment, and the file the error and the oil in the water resources are drying.

Saleh of the armed forces, the Commission was when she was 16 and rose to become the Marshal ranks.

The Ministry administers all of the information through the Public Broadcasting Corporation, Radio and television. It controls access to the resources of Most printing presses, and some of the newspapers.

Officials tried to curb unrest in the South and 2009 saw an increasing number of journalists and the newspapers and the interruption of the delivery charges for sites "harming national unity". Against this background, most of Yemeni journalists are now closer to resort to self-censorship.

TV and radio are vital news sources in the illiteracy rate and is broad. Yemen's State Radio and Television Corporation (YRTC) is the national network. Private satellite TV stations operate bases outside Yemen.

Internet use is growing, although very low operative bases. According to the ITU, September 2009 had 370,000 users, or 1.6% of the population. OpenNet Initiative that monitors internet censorship, says, the filtering is a "relatively broad in scope". Rebel groups are increasingly making use of the internet.

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