SANAA, Yemen - Dozens of thousands of people have called for the overthrow of the Yemeni president to demonstrations in the capital on Thursday inspired by a popular revolt in Tunisia.
The protests led to opposition members and activists for young people is an important extension of the unrest sparked by the rebellion of Tunisia, which has also inspired by Egypt, the largest events of a generation. They constitute a new threat to stability in the poor country in the Arab world, which has become a center of concern has increased about a resurgent al-Qaeda in the western branch of the northern rebellion and secessionist movement in the south.
Crowds in four parts of Sana'a closed streets and chanting calls for end to government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power for nearly 32 years.
"We do not accept anything less than the President leaves," says independent MP Ahmed Hashid.
Opposition leaders called for more protests on Friday.
"We will be happy when they hear the words" understand "the president," said Hashid, citing a statement issued by the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, before fleeing the country.
Saleh tried to end the simmering tensions by raising the salaries of the armed forces and opponents of the ban on the matters it intends to install his son as his successor.
When turbulence in Tunisia, he ordered half the taxes drastically and has advised the government to control prices. He used the riot police and soldiers in several key areas of the capital Sanaa, and its surroundings in order to avoid unrest.
This has not prevented critics of his government to the streets in days of demonstrations calling for his resignation, a red line that some opponents had dared to cross.
Nearly half of Yemen's population lives below the poverty line and $ 2 per day and not get adequate sanitation. Less than one-tenth the streets are paved. Tens of thousands have been displaced from their homes by floods in urban conflict.
The government is corrupt, has little control outside the capital, and its main source of income - oil - can be dry for a decade.
Saleh current term ends in 2013, but proposed amendments to the Constitution would allow him to remain in power for two further periods of ten years.
U.S. Secretary of Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Yemen to strengthen security cooperation with the United States during the notice period to visit this month to shore up ties.
After Obama's pattern of administration of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Clinton also stressed that the U.S. wanted a broader context of Yemen in the fight against violent extremists. Clinton was the first U.S. secretary to visit Yemen in two decades.
Radicals used the country as a base to launch attacks on America, the radical cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, is believed to be hiding in Yemen, is believed to have inspired some of these attacks.
Clinton said the United States supports efforts to address the underlying causes of extremism: poverty, corruption, social inequality and political divisions that have been boiled into a rebellion. She said that Yemen should stop the practice of child marriage and introduce reforms.
Over the last five years, U.S. military aid to Yemen amounted to about $ 250 million. In 2010, the military and civilian aid is distributed almost equally and combined for 300 million dollars.
Military aid to Yemen to reach $ 250 million in 2011 alone, U.S. officials said, and Clinton said he would be additional development.
Yemen has been there a number of anti-American attacks in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Aden that killed 17 American sailors
Just last month the CIA had failed several bomb in a restaurant is a suburb of Sanaa, and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was thought behind the attempted bombing of an American airliner landing in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.
Al-Awlaki is also believed to have inspired the 2009 deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. Al-Qaeda fighters attacked the U.S. embassy in Sanaa twice in 2008.
With the help of U.S. money and training of U.S. elite commandos, Yemen is the establishment of provincial units to combat terrorism in response to al-Qaida in his heart.
The protests led to opposition members and activists for young people is an important extension of the unrest sparked by the rebellion of Tunisia, which has also inspired by Egypt, the largest events of a generation. They constitute a new threat to stability in the poor country in the Arab world, which has become a center of concern has increased about a resurgent al-Qaeda in the western branch of the northern rebellion and secessionist movement in the south.
Crowds in four parts of Sana'a closed streets and chanting calls for end to government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power for nearly 32 years.
"We do not accept anything less than the President leaves," says independent MP Ahmed Hashid.
Opposition leaders called for more protests on Friday.
"We will be happy when they hear the words" understand "the president," said Hashid, citing a statement issued by the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, before fleeing the country.
Saleh tried to end the simmering tensions by raising the salaries of the armed forces and opponents of the ban on the matters it intends to install his son as his successor.
When turbulence in Tunisia, he ordered half the taxes drastically and has advised the government to control prices. He used the riot police and soldiers in several key areas of the capital Sanaa, and its surroundings in order to avoid unrest.
This has not prevented critics of his government to the streets in days of demonstrations calling for his resignation, a red line that some opponents had dared to cross.
Nearly half of Yemen's population lives below the poverty line and $ 2 per day and not get adequate sanitation. Less than one-tenth the streets are paved. Tens of thousands have been displaced from their homes by floods in urban conflict.
The government is corrupt, has little control outside the capital, and its main source of income - oil - can be dry for a decade.
Saleh current term ends in 2013, but proposed amendments to the Constitution would allow him to remain in power for two further periods of ten years.
U.S. Secretary of Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Yemen to strengthen security cooperation with the United States during the notice period to visit this month to shore up ties.
After Obama's pattern of administration of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Clinton also stressed that the U.S. wanted a broader context of Yemen in the fight against violent extremists. Clinton was the first U.S. secretary to visit Yemen in two decades.
Radicals used the country as a base to launch attacks on America, the radical cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, is believed to be hiding in Yemen, is believed to have inspired some of these attacks.
Clinton said the United States supports efforts to address the underlying causes of extremism: poverty, corruption, social inequality and political divisions that have been boiled into a rebellion. She said that Yemen should stop the practice of child marriage and introduce reforms.
Over the last five years, U.S. military aid to Yemen amounted to about $ 250 million. In 2010, the military and civilian aid is distributed almost equally and combined for 300 million dollars.
Military aid to Yemen to reach $ 250 million in 2011 alone, U.S. officials said, and Clinton said he would be additional development.
Yemen has been there a number of anti-American attacks in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Aden that killed 17 American sailors
Just last month the CIA had failed several bomb in a restaurant is a suburb of Sanaa, and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was thought behind the attempted bombing of an American airliner landing in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.
Al-Awlaki is also believed to have inspired the 2009 deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. Al-Qaeda fighters attacked the U.S. embassy in Sanaa twice in 2008.
With the help of U.S. money and training of U.S. elite commandos, Yemen is the establishment of provincial units to combat terrorism in response to al-Qaida in his heart.