The protest movement in the Arab world is spreading to the Yemen. In the capital Sanaa thousands of people against the government and social injustice have demonstrated. So far, the demonstrations were peaceful - in Egypt, protests escalated again, however. Sanaa - First Tunisia, then in Egypt - and now the Yemen in the capital Sanaa have demanded on Thursday thousands of demonstrators a change of government.
At the University gathered 10,000 people, another 6,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of the city. The people demanded in chorus the replacement of President Ali Abdullah Salih, better living conditions, an end to corruption and social inequality. About a hundred members of the security forces were concentrated in the banking district in Sanaa.
The demonstrations were peaceful. President Saleh is considered autocratic ruler, but is a key ally in the United States proclaimed by the worldwide fight against terrorism and supports the hunt for al-Qaida terrorists hiding in some regions of Yemen. He ruled the country, which is struggling with high unemployment and dwindling oil and water reserves for more than 30 years.
Almost half the 23 million people in Yemen live on less than two dollars a day, a third suffer hunger. The social crisis has intensified in recent years. The case of Yemen shows that the spark of revolution kindled in Tunisia and in other Arab countries protests. In Egypt there have been days of massive protests against the government.
There, the demonstrations escalated again when protesters set a police station on Thursday in the port city of Suez on fire with Molotov cocktails. The courses at the Cairo stock market raced by more than six percent in the cellar, all trade was suspended. The Egyptian opposition politician and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, called President Hosni Mubarak to resign.
ElBaradei is considered one of the sharpest critics of the Egyptian government, his arrival in Egypt is expected later today. It is still unclear what role he will assume in the protests, but instead he finds himself more as a moderator of leader of the protests. Plant Salih, the transfer of power to his son? The 68-year-old Yemeni president Saleh had come to power in 1978.
In the first democratic elections in 1999 he was confirmed as president in 2006, he was re-elected for seven years. "No to the mandate renewal, no to hereditary succession" and "The hour of change has come," shouted the crowd in Sanaa, calling a demonstration to the opposition alliance was accepted.
The Organisatn had planned claims to four separate rallies to spread the police presence at various events. The ruling party organized in return also four rallies that have attracted thousands of people. Is currently being discussed in Parliament, despite the protests of the opposition to amend the Constitution, could secure the Salih a presidency for life.
The opposition also accuses Salih before trying to hand over power to his eldest son, Ahmed. This is the head of the Republican Guard, the elite unit of the army. In a Sunday night from the televised speech, the president rejected the criticisms. "We are a republic, and I am against the transfer of power," said Salih.
In Yemen for 27 April parliamentary elections scheduled.
At the University gathered 10,000 people, another 6,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of the city. The people demanded in chorus the replacement of President Ali Abdullah Salih, better living conditions, an end to corruption and social inequality. About a hundred members of the security forces were concentrated in the banking district in Sanaa.
The demonstrations were peaceful. President Saleh is considered autocratic ruler, but is a key ally in the United States proclaimed by the worldwide fight against terrorism and supports the hunt for al-Qaida terrorists hiding in some regions of Yemen. He ruled the country, which is struggling with high unemployment and dwindling oil and water reserves for more than 30 years.
Almost half the 23 million people in Yemen live on less than two dollars a day, a third suffer hunger. The social crisis has intensified in recent years. The case of Yemen shows that the spark of revolution kindled in Tunisia and in other Arab countries protests. In Egypt there have been days of massive protests against the government.
There, the demonstrations escalated again when protesters set a police station on Thursday in the port city of Suez on fire with Molotov cocktails. The courses at the Cairo stock market raced by more than six percent in the cellar, all trade was suspended. The Egyptian opposition politician and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, called President Hosni Mubarak to resign.
ElBaradei is considered one of the sharpest critics of the Egyptian government, his arrival in Egypt is expected later today. It is still unclear what role he will assume in the protests, but instead he finds himself more as a moderator of leader of the protests. Plant Salih, the transfer of power to his son? The 68-year-old Yemeni president Saleh had come to power in 1978.
In the first democratic elections in 1999 he was confirmed as president in 2006, he was re-elected for seven years. "No to the mandate renewal, no to hereditary succession" and "The hour of change has come," shouted the crowd in Sanaa, calling a demonstration to the opposition alliance was accepted.
The Organisatn had planned claims to four separate rallies to spread the police presence at various events. The ruling party organized in return also four rallies that have attracted thousands of people. Is currently being discussed in Parliament, despite the protests of the opposition to amend the Constitution, could secure the Salih a presidency for life.
The opposition also accuses Salih before trying to hand over power to his eldest son, Ahmed. This is the head of the Republican Guard, the elite unit of the army. In a Sunday night from the televised speech, the president rejected the criticisms. "We are a republic, and I am against the transfer of power," said Salih.
In Yemen for 27 April parliamentary elections scheduled.
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