Blog Topic #9

I am selecting Yemen and I know almost nothing about this country except that it is currently divided. There have been many protest both pro and anti-governmental in the past few months all with non-comforting names such as "Day of Rage" "Friday of Anger" and "Friday of No Return".  The people are obviously fired up.  The pro-governmental people want to keep the current people in power because they feel that they are a lesser of two evils, the other evil being the people who would replace their current government. The anti-governmental people are fed up with unemployment and poor economic conditions and were pushed over the edge by a proposed modification to the constitution of Yemen.  The main thing the protesters want is for their leader President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down and they don't want his son to take over either.  He has already said he does not plan to run for re-election in 2013 and that his son won't inherit power either, but there is still mounting pressure for him to step down now.