Post-Election Yemen: What's Next?

Saleh's Lingering Influence

Follow the link below to access an update of Yemen after the presidential election.

Yemen News

Yemen After Saleh

Yemen After Saleh

Yemen After The Election

Four Days Before Electing a New President

Profile of Yemen

Full name: Republic of Yemen

Population: 24.3 million (UN, 2010)

Capital: Sanaa

Area: 536,869 sq km (207,286 sq miles)

Major language: Arabic

Major religion: Islam

Life expectancy: 65 years (men), 68 years (women) (UN)

Monetary unit: 1 Yemeni riyal = 100 fils

Main exports: Crude oil, cotton, coffee, fish

Source: BBC News

A Timeline of Events (Leading up to the Election)

Source: BBC News - Yemen Profile

06/2011 - President Saleh is injured in a rocket attack and is flown to Saudi Arabia.

09/2011 - President Saleh returns home.

10/2011 - Yemeni human rights activist Tawakul Karman wins Nobel Peace Prize.

11/2011 - President Saleh agrees to hand over power to Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.

01/2012 January - President Saleh leaves Yemen and is granted full immunity by Parliament.

02/2012 February - Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi is inaugurated as president after running unopposed in the election.

Nadia Al-Sakkaf: See Yemen through my eyes

Yemen Flag

Building Context

Technology is at the forefront of how we share and perceive news in the media. News bleeds into our lives through blog posts, Youtube videos, status updates, tweets, text messages, etc. With technology at our disposal, we have almost instant access to information and the resources to evaluate the validity of that information.

To give you perspective on the intent and direction of the posts contained within this blog, Now & Then in Yemen is my response to a class assignment. I am attending a four-year liberal arts college in America and pursuing an interactive media design major. One of my courses, which focuses on technology and its impact in the news, asked me to utilize technology to record the current events of a country in the Middle East. I have chosen to analyze Yemen and provide an overview of the recent election along with updates on the country and its citizens as time progresses.