Embattled Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Friday he was ready to cede power to prevent more bloodshed, but only to "safe hands".
Yemen’s president warned on Tuesday that his country would descend into civil war if he is forced to quit.
Top generals, ambassadors and some tribes threw their support behind Yemen’s anti-government protesters on Monday.
Police opened fire on Friday on anti-government protesters in Yemen a day after embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh offered sweeping reform.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power since 1978, vowed on Monday not to quit under pressure from the street.
Yemeni police opened fire Thursday on a crowd of protesters shot and injured six people on Thursday evening trying to break up a demonstration.
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/ 10 February 2011
Yemen is teetering on the brink of failed statehood but protesters’ midday departures cast doubt on whether Yemenis are ready to mount a revolt.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis squared off in peaceful protests for and against the government on Thursday during an opposition-led "Day of Rage".
More than 20 000 Yemenis filled the streets of Sana’a on Thursday for a Day of Rage rally, demanding a change in government.
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/ 17 September 2009
More than 80 refugees died this week in an army air raid on a camp in north Yemen, a camp source said on Thursday.
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/ 25 February 2008
Foreigners wander freely among the handsome stone and baked-brick houses of Sanaa’s Old City, but elsewhere in Yemen al-Qaeda attacks have damaged a fledgling tourism industry already hurt by tribal kidnappings. The government, which hopes tourism earnings can help offset flagging oil revenues, is struggling to shore up security by providing armed police escorts for travel to certain areas.
At least eight Yemeni soldiers were killed in a volcanic eruption on an island off the country’s Red Sea coast, the government said on Monday. A Defence Ministry official said the western part of the island had "collapsed" following the eruption. Yemen’s oil minister said several earthquakes felt on Sunday had triggered the eruption.