Risk management report: Yemen
Risk Management
Issue 1005
- 26 Nov 2015
| 1 minute read
Confronted by multiple humanitarian and security crises, Yemen
is on the verge of collapse and ‘failed state’ status (GSN’s political risk
category F). The transition period after president Ali Abdullah Saleh
relinquished power (after 33 years) in February 2012 never delivered on
promises of democracy and stability. President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi inherited a mess of competing and often violent factions, which he failed to harness: southern secessionists continue to resist Sanaa’s rule, jihadist groups are embedded around the country, old guard remnants refuse to relinquish power and the Houthi movement (northern Zaidis allied with a resurgent Saleh) captured Sanaa in September 2014.
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