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#Yemen panel ordered to draw up decentralization plan
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President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has ordered a panel to draw up a constitution that would transform Yemen into a six-region federation, state media reported, despite opposition in the north and south. The 17-member panel, which includes four women, is expected to implement a decentralization plan agreed at a national conference last year to create four regions in north Yemen and two in the south. read more

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#Yemen president lashes out at ’below-par’ #security_services
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Yemeni president #Abd-Rabbu_Mansour_Hadi on Saturday lashed out at the “below-par” performance of the country’s security services, after 29 inmates including suspected Al-Qaeda members escaped from Sanaa central prison. The prison break after an assault on Thursday unmasked a lack of improved security at the facility, despite vows by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) chief Nasser al-Wuhayshi last year to free incarcerated members of his group. read more

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#Yemen to become a six region federation, government declares
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A presidential panel has agreed to transform Yemen into a six-region federation as part of its political transition, Saba news agency announced Monday. “The final approval” on creating a “federal state of six regions” came at a meeting of the committee, headed by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and including representatives of Yemen’s main parties, Saba said. Hadi formed the committee in late January at the end of a “national dialogue” to decide on the number of regions, and to insert it into the text of a new constitution, to be drafted and voted on within a year. read more

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#UN envoy calls on Security Council to “do its part” in #Yemen
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Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, center, shows the book of the national dialogue at the end of a conference aimed at drafting a new constitution and establishing a federal state on January 25, 2014 in Sanaa. (Photo: AFP - Mohammed Huwais)

The United Nations’ envoy on Yemen urged the Security Council on Tuesday to “do its part” in helping stop those attempting to obstruct the Yemeni transition, which diplomats said was a call for possible sanctions against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Meanwhile, reconciliation talks have outlined Yemen’s future as a federal state, but its leaders now face the challenge of implementing change in an impoverished country grappling with multiple revolts. read (...)

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