Adam Baron
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 05:56
But events in Yemen—the real Yemen, a place with a rich and complex political culture whose fluctuations are far more important to the day-to-day life of the average person than al-Qaeda—told a rather different story. A long-gestating political crisis deepened before turning violent until, finally, on Sept. 21, after 4 days of intense fighting, Zaidi Shi’a Houthi rebels signed a peace agreement with the country’s main political factions after taking control of Sana’a, Yemen’s capital.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 14:33
Power cuts in Sana’a were once largely limited to hour-long rolling blackouts. But as the central government’s already fragile hold on much of the country unravelled amid the 2011 uprising against former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the government proved unable or perhaps unwilling to prevent power line sabotage.