Yemen?
Here's a video of the news channel Al Jazeera here]. And: "-" We gather today to demand the resignation of President Saleh and his corrupt government, "shouted to address the crowd a member of the Islamist party al-Islah al-Abdelmalik Qasuss. - The opposition has organized four separate events in the capital to "disperse the police," according to one of the organizers. - The riot police kept their distance from protesters, but they have tightened security around the Interior Ministry and the Central Bank. - The General People's Congress (GPC ruling party), has organized four cons-demonstrations which brought together thousands of people in the capital. - "Do not drop the democracy and the Constitution" could be read on one of the banners waved by Pro-government demonstrators. - The protests have multiplied in recent days in Yemen, a country ravaged by poverty and unemployment. [...] In addition, thousands of supporters of the Southern Movement, a separatist group, marched in several cities in southern Yemen, which Daleh, Habilayn, Loder and Ezzan, chanting separatist slogans. "Revolution, Revolution in the South," "Rather die free than to accept the occupation," the crowd repeated, according to participants. - In power since 1978, Mr. Saleh was elected for the first time in 1999 by direct universal suffrage for a term of seven years. He was re- for the second time in 2006 for a term which expires in 2013. - A draft amendment to the Constitution, under discussion in Parliament despite the refusal of the opposition, could pave the way for a life presidency for the current head of state. - The opposition also accused the president Saleh, 68, of wanting to pass the presidency to his eldest son Ahmad, head of the Republican Guard, an elite unit of the army. - But the head of state defended itself in a televised speech Sunday night to try to hand over power to his son. "We are a republic, and I am against the transmission of power," he said. "
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