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| Unrest spreads to Marib |
| 2014-01-05 |
| [Yemen Post] Despite reassurances from state officials that the impoverished nation has made great strides toward a finding a consensual solution to its over-lapping crises, instability continues to spread as wildfire throughout. After reports over the past weeks of violence, dissidence and bloodshed in the provinces of Hadhramawt, restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement , al-Dhali and Aden, officials confirmed on Friday that festivities have reached the oil rich province of Marib. Instable since 2011 uprising as tribes loyal to the former regime opposed state reforms and change as to protect their immediate interests, both political and financial, Marib rustics have grown ever bolder in their targeting of state infrastructures, always running sabotage operations against power lines and oil facilities to exert pressure onto President Abdo Rabbo Hadi. On Friday rustics came to clash with the military when they attempted engineers to repair a segment of Marib pipeline. A senior army official and three rustics were killed as a result. AP quoted a government source as saying that "a military unit and rustics exchanged gunfire as troops headed to secure and repair a damaged pipeline in the city of Marib." The source went on alleging that the rustics were in allegiance with former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , bent on generating mayhem to hinder all political progress and fail the National Dialogue Conference. These new claims came amid more whispers that Yemen's former strongman would seek to depose President Hadi as to introduce his return to the presidency. It is important to note that such whispers, however many they might be, have been backed up by facts. |
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