WOW WOW WOW.....ANOTHER GOVERNMENT being redone!! hmmm lets see Tunia, Egypt, Libya, Greece, Italy, etc etc etc...now yemen!
Yemen opposition says govt agreed, 12 killed in Taiz
Khaleej Times - 02 December, 2011
Yemen’s opposition said it agreed the lineup of an interim government on Thursday with outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s party, under a deal to end a struggle over his fate that has brought the country close to civil war.
However, progress on the deal crafted by Yemen’s Gulf Arab neighbours showed no signs of ending the bloodshed that has stained 10 months of protests against Saleh.
At least 12 civilians, government troops and anti-Saleh gunmen died overnight in the country’s commercial capital Taiz, a hotbed of demonstrations against Saleh, residents and officials said.
The plan’s sponsors hope it can reverse a slide toward chaos on the doorstep of the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, and prevent al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch from gaining a foothold near shipping routes through the Red Sea.
An official of the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), a bloc of opposition parties that signed the power transfer plan in Riyadh, said they had settled on a division of cabinet seats between themselves and Saleh’s General People’s Congress (GPC).
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Saleh’s party would take portfolios including defence, foreign affairs and oil, while the opposition would get the interior, finance and education ministries.
JMP spokesman Mohammed Qahtan said the government lineup could be announced as early as Saturday.
The prospective government would lead the country to a presidential election that Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the vice president to whom Saleh has transferred his powers, has set for Feb. 21, 2012.
Opposition sources also said they had given Hadi a list of their choices for a military council tasked with running the army until a new president is elected. The list included former defence and interior ministers, and army commanders who turned on Saleh.
Under the Gulf initiative signed by Saleh, a body will be set up to restructure the armed forces. Saleh’s son Ahmed commands the Republican Guard, one of the best equipped units.
A completed transfer of power would make Saleh the fourth Arab leader to be toppled following mass protests that have reshaped the political landscape of the Middle East.
Any successor would face multiple, overlapping conflicts that have gained force during the political crisis, including rising separatist sentiment in the south, which fought a civil war with Saleh’s north in 1994, and fighting with Islamists who have seized territory in the southern Abyan province.
Yemen opposition says govt agreed, 12 killed in Taiz
Khaleej Times - 02 December, 2011
Yemen’s opposition said it agreed the lineup of an interim government on Thursday with outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s party, under a deal to end a struggle over his fate that has brought the country close to civil war.
However, progress on the deal crafted by Yemen’s Gulf Arab neighbours showed no signs of ending the bloodshed that has stained 10 months of protests against Saleh.
At least 12 civilians, government troops and anti-Saleh gunmen died overnight in the country’s commercial capital Taiz, a hotbed of demonstrations against Saleh, residents and officials said.
The plan’s sponsors hope it can reverse a slide toward chaos on the doorstep of the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, and prevent al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch from gaining a foothold near shipping routes through the Red Sea.
An official of the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), a bloc of opposition parties that signed the power transfer plan in Riyadh, said they had settled on a division of cabinet seats between themselves and Saleh’s General People’s Congress (GPC).
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Saleh’s party would take portfolios including defence, foreign affairs and oil, while the opposition would get the interior, finance and education ministries.
JMP spokesman Mohammed Qahtan said the government lineup could be announced as early as Saturday.
The prospective government would lead the country to a presidential election that Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the vice president to whom Saleh has transferred his powers, has set for Feb. 21, 2012.
Opposition sources also said they had given Hadi a list of their choices for a military council tasked with running the army until a new president is elected. The list included former defence and interior ministers, and army commanders who turned on Saleh.
Under the Gulf initiative signed by Saleh, a body will be set up to restructure the armed forces. Saleh’s son Ahmed commands the Republican Guard, one of the best equipped units.
A completed transfer of power would make Saleh the fourth Arab leader to be toppled following mass protests that have reshaped the political landscape of the Middle East.
Any successor would face multiple, overlapping conflicts that have gained force during the political crisis, including rising separatist sentiment in the south, which fought a civil war with Saleh’s north in 1994, and fighting with Islamists who have seized territory in the southern Abyan province.
