Wed Mar 23, 2011 15:58 GMT |
Although the war in Libya has been dominating international media in recent weeks – with a brief interlude for the Japanese earthquake – events in Yemen – where President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime is on the brink of collapse – are arguably of greater geopolitical significance. Libya has dominated headlines because it is more visibly… [Read more]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Ali Abdullah Saleh, AQAP, civil war, Gulf of Aden, piracy, Red Sea, regime change, Saudi Arabia, shipping, state collapse, terrorism, Yemen
Posted in: Africa, freight transport, General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Political Risk
Tue Jan 5, 2010 15:43 GMT |
The Christmas Day Detroit airliner plot has put Yemen under the terror spotlight after it emerged that the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, lived in Yemen between August and December 2009, and after the Yemen-based Islamist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the attempted attack. Given the intense media attention on the… [Read more]
Tags: al-Qaeda, AQAP, Saudi Arabia, secession, security, terrorism, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Yemen
Posted in: General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Political Risk