Clashes broke out Wednesday, February 16 in Aden and Sana'a, Yemen's main cities, between security forces and hundreds of demonstrators. According to a report released by the security services, two people died in Aden. In Sanaa, the police deployed around an opposition rally on the campus of the university were unable to keep away supporters and opponents.
"We will continue to protest until the start of this regime," said a Yemeni student. "We have no future under the current circumstances." "Ali emerges," demonstrators shouted at the president Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power for thirty-two years. He blamed elements "following instructions from abroad" to seek to sow chaos in the country.
In this independent state until 1990, forty percent of 23 million people live on less than two dollars a day. One third of the population suffers from chronic malnutrition. Recent events have raised less participants than in previous weeks, when tens of thousands of people took to the streets.
But sporadic violence are becoming more numerous. The threat of Yemen following the examples of Tunisia and Egypt led Saleh announced that he would disappear from power after his current term in 2013, and to propose a dialogue with the opposition. The opposition agreed to these discussions, but the youth movement's base, it does not satisfy.
"We want change and we want this change just as the Egyptians and Tunisians," warns Mechal Sultan, a student at Sana'a. The protest movement is a new front opened in Yemen, where the authorities have already mobilized in the fight against Al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula and the rebel movements.
Abdel Malek al Housi, who heads a Shiite rebel movement in northern Iraq, has supported the protesters. "The Yemeni people should take this opportunity seriously and take action (...) to get rid of this criminal government," he said in a statement. 
"We will continue to protest until the start of this regime," said a Yemeni student. "We have no future under the current circumstances." "Ali emerges," demonstrators shouted at the president Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power for thirty-two years. He blamed elements "following instructions from abroad" to seek to sow chaos in the country.
In this independent state until 1990, forty percent of 23 million people live on less than two dollars a day. One third of the population suffers from chronic malnutrition. Recent events have raised less participants than in previous weeks, when tens of thousands of people took to the streets.
But sporadic violence are becoming more numerous. The threat of Yemen following the examples of Tunisia and Egypt led Saleh announced that he would disappear from power after his current term in 2013, and to propose a dialogue with the opposition. The opposition agreed to these discussions, but the youth movement's base, it does not satisfy.
"We want change and we want this change just as the Egyptians and Tunisians," warns Mechal Sultan, a student at Sana'a. The protest movement is a new front opened in Yemen, where the authorities have already mobilized in the fight against Al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula and the rebel movements.
Abdel Malek al Housi, who heads a Shiite rebel movement in northern Iraq, has supported the protesters. "The Yemeni people should take this opportunity seriously and take action (...) to get rid of this criminal government," he said in a statement.
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