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Yemen Risk Management Report: Concern over transition’s chances; economic recovery fragile


Risk Management Reports
Issue 955 - 04 Oct 2013 | 1 minute read

Yemen is in a very fragile state. After 33 years of rule, president Ali Abdullah Saleh let go of power in February 2012, and the nation entered a two-year transitional period intended to steer it towards democracy and stability.His successor,Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, has inherited a nation beset by violence and competing factions.A national dialogue – part of the political transition -- began on 18 March and is nearing conclusion; its outcome is supposed to feed into a new constitution by the end of 2013, enabling elections by 2014.

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