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Yemeni Nobel laureate: Saudi Arabia, UAE occupy Yemen
« on: February 08, 2018, 05:04:41 pm »
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Yemeni Nobel laureate: Saudi Arabia, UAE occupy Yemen

Yemeni Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman has called for an end to what she says is a military occupation of her country by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in an exclusive interview with the Reuters news agency.

An outspoken rights advocate and activist with Yemen's Islah party, Karman won the prize in 2011 after camping out in a tent for months in pro-democracy protests that eventually forced Yemen's longtime leader Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

As in other lands shaken by Arab Spring uprisings that year, like Syria and Libya, Yemen descended into a war which drew in foreign powers, seeming to dash the dreams of progress by the thousands who took to Sanaa's makeshift "Change Square".

Read more at: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/yemeni-nobel-laureate-saudi-arabia-uae-occupy-yemen-180208062638767.html