Thursday, April 28, 2011

At least five dead in clashes in Yemen

In Aden in the south, clashes have also pitted the security forces in armed demonstrators who had proclaimed a day of "civil disobedience". Police fired on demonstrators opposed to President Saleh, who blocked roads with boulders, killing one protester and wounding three others. The response of the demonstrators left two people dead among the police, sources said police and medical.

Begun in late January, when the first uprisings in the Arab world, protests demanding the departure of the Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh, in power for thirty-two years, have killed over 150 people. On Monday, the spokesman for the Yemeni opposition announced it had agreed to the plan proposed by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which provides a starting within weeks of President Saleh.

In principle, the power and the Common Front (a coalition of the parliamentary opposition) were to meet in Riyadh on Wednesday to sign the agreement on a transition of power. But the date of signature now appears uncertain: an official GCC (which includes the monarchies of the region) said it would take place Monday, May 2 To "complete arrangements for the adoption of [their] initiative," the foreign ministers of the GCC are to meet Sunday in Riyadh.

It is against this plan to end the crisis that just protesting the protesters Wednesday, as they had done these days, then without incident.

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