Background: North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern government adopted a Marxist orientation. The massive exodus of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed to two decades of hostility between the states. The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990. A southern secessionist movement in 1994 was quickly subdued. In 2000, Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to a delimitation of their border.
February 1st 2008Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa After narrowly escaping from the "Palace Sayun Hotel", we arrived in the capitol of the Hadrawmat province, al-Mukallah. The only thing Eric and I had ever heard about Mukallah was that it smelled ho ... [full story]
January 26th 2008Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa Back by popular demand and an end to laziness, here is my first blog post of the new year. So so much has happened to me in the last 42 days (that's what my blog counter tells me anyway). I'm going ... [full story]
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