Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 23

6-Jun-2011

yemen

Fighting Intensifies In Yemen

Yemen officials said fighting between tribesmen and security forces in San'a had closed the airport on June 2. Emergency services personnel said bodies were lying in the streets of al-Hasaba neighborhood, the stronghold of Shaikh Sadiq al-Ahmar, head of the Hashid tribal federation, where the fighting started again on 31 May after a truce broke down. The conflict in San'a started the previous week when...