Farian Sabahi
STORIA DELLO YEMEN

Description

Yemen is a complex country. Its prosperity depends on the ability of the central authority to manage the scarcity of resources (water, oil, gas), religious diversity and tribal powers. In the Yemeni equation, the tribes represent the most pragmatic element: they stay with whom it suits and, if necessary, change alliances. Because of this they have been able to withstand events for millennia. Modern Yemen is a presidential republic (the President is also head of the executive) with a National Assembly made up of members elected for five years. It is the only republic of the Arabian Peninsula and was born from the merger, on May 22, 1990, between North Yemen and South Yemen. The North has been a republic since November 26, 1962, following the coup that overthrew the Zaydite monarchy. Formerly a British protectorate, the South was an independent socialist republic since November 20, 1967 and, linked to the USSR, played a role in the Cold War. A quarter of a century after its reunification, Yemen became the scene of a war that seems to have no end and is putting its unity at risk. From the very beginning, ʿAlī ʿAbd Allāh Saleh, voted by the Assembly on 1 October 1994 and re-elected on 20 September 2006, had presided over the unified Republic of Yemen. to implement a management of the scarce resources of Yemen. Saleh was killed on 4 December 2017 in Sana’a by the Huthi rioters he had fought against for years, with whom he had allied himself after the Arab Spring and the handover to Manṣūr Hādī. Saleh had betrayed the Houthis who for a year and a half exploited the alliance with their former enemy for their own purposes and then assassinated him and took revenge on how he had long treated them.