Yearbook 2010
 Yemen.
According to
COUNTRYAAH, the United Nations Food Program WFP warned in
March that millions of residents in this poorest country in
the Arab world were at risk of starvation. Prior to the food
supply of the population, the government prioritized the
fight against militant opposition - Shiite Muslim al-Huthi
rebels in the north, separatists in the south and, above
all, the al-Qaeda network on the Arabian Peninsula. The
government stepped up the fight against this regional
al-Qaeda, especially in the province of Shabwa where the
group was assumed to have its base. Heavily armed al-Qaeda
militia stormed a military building on June 19 in the
country's second-largest city of Aden, killing 13 people,
including at least four civilians, including one child, and
a number of prisoners. Western governments increasingly saw
Yemen as a basis for Islamist terrorism after two packages
of explosive charges shipped from Yemen on October 29 were
found at East Midlands airports in the UK and Dubai in the
United Arab Emirates. The packages had been sent with air
cargo and at least one was reportedly built to explode
aboard the plane. The United States and its allies increased
their military involvement in the country. Driverless US
attack plan attacks, according to British broadcaster BBC
repeatedly, what the US suspected was al-Qaeda targets on
the ground. On several occasions civilians were killed.
Driverless US attack plan attacks, according to British
broadcaster BBC repeatedly, what the US suspected was
al-Qaeda targets on the ground. On several occasions
civilians were killed. Driverless US attack plan attacks,
according to British broadcaster BBC repeatedly, what the US
suspected was al-Qaeda targets on the ground. On several
occasions civilians were killed.
In the south, the separatist uprising continued. Several
times during the year, police forcibly stopped separatist
demonstrations, while armed rebels attacked military patrols
and government delegations. In northern Yemen, on February
11, al-Huthirbells declared a ceasefire in the fighting with
government forces and Saudi troops. As a condition of
joining the ceasefire, Saudi Arabia demanded that Yemeni
government forces guard the border, that the rebels should
withdraw from the surrounding mountains and that all
captured Saudi soldiers should be released. Yemen demanded
that the rebels release all prisoners, civilian and
military, leave all occupied official buildings, lift all
roadblocks, give up all weapons, respect the country's
constitution and stop the attacks on Saudi soil.
In August, the human rights organization Amnesty
International criticized Yemen for sacrificing human rights
in the name of security. In September, for example, 15,000
people were forced to flee their homes in the city of Huta
in the south when the government launched an offensive
against al-Qaeda.
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