March 2011
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BBC Radio 5 interview on Sana'a attack →
Interview with BBC Radio 5’s Up All Night programme late last night/early hours of this morning. 0:23:30 in
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WatchThe sustained gunfire from rooftops and buildings overlooking worshippers and protesters near Sana’a University today, which left 45 dead and hundreds injured. The fire was lit first, drawing protesters who thought tents were being burnt.
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Journalists in Yemen under pressure
Blog post for the Frontline Club
Walking home in the orange light of the narrow streets of Sana’a Old City, the sila (sunken road) circling the ancient tower houses was the same as it is every night – deserted - bar the occasional check point of tired looking soldiers wrapped up in trench coats with kafiyas bound around their heads.
I crept home to my bed, exhausted after two busy days of...
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WatchA trip in the back of a pickup today from the mosque turned hospital, collecting the injured from the ongoing battle with security forces and baltajiyah.
The man you see in the blue shirt being dragged by is a ‘baltajiyah’ (thug) captured by protesters.
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WatchThis man was shot in the eye tonight when government forces opened fire on anti-goverment protesters near Sana’a University.
UPDATE: 06:45 am : Dr. Abdualmalek Alyosofi informed me this man died an hour ago. The eye was the exit wound. He was shot in the back of the head. I have his name but his family has yet to be traced.
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Yemen Friday prayers protests: Last (wo)man... →
Blog post for London’s Frontline Club.
In the heat of the midday sun orderly rows of coloured prayer mats stretched for the best part of a mile. What should be one of the busiest roads in Sana’a filled with people, squeezing in and around hundreds of tents currently housing around a thousand activists, permanently camping on the road in a spectacular display of people power. The...
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WatchWalking through the crowds of worshippers during Friday prayers at Sana’a University earlier today.
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Yemen parties jostle for allegiance of the tribes
IONA CRAIG in Sana’a (see original article in The Irish Times)
POLITICAL DIALOGUE ground to a halt in Yemen yesterday as ailing president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his adversaries tried to outwit each other in the rush to gain the allegiance of the tribes amid growing anti-government protests.
On the eve of planned demonstrations by the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), the coalition of...
