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Yemen

Yemen. A difficult strive to success. Francesca Gavino Period 1. Located in Asia. It’s right under Saudi Arabia and East of the Red Sea. Sanaa is the capital of Yemmen. Yemen. President: Ali Abdullah Saleh Vice P : Abd al- Rab Mansur al- Hadi Prime Minister: Ali Mohammed Mujur.

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Yemen

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  1. Yemen A difficult strive to success Francesca Gavino Period 1

  2. Located in Asia. It’s right under Saudi Arabia and East of the Red Sea. Sanaa is the capital of Yemmen. Yemen

  3. President: Ali Abdullah Saleh • Vice P: Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi • Prime Minister: Ali Mohammed Mujur Leaders

  4. Population: 23,495,361 • Religion: • Muslim 98.9% (Sunni 58% and Shi'a 42%) • Hindu (0.7%) • Christian (0.2%) • Age: • 0-14 (43.5%) • 15-64 (53.9%) • 65+ (2.6%) Demographics

  5. Race: • Arab (92.8%) • Somali (3.7%) • Black (1.1%) • Indo-Pakistan (1%) • Other (1.4%) • Language: Arabic Demographics

  6. Against the government • The colonists wanted to take down the British Government. • The citizens of Yemen protested that the president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, should resign from office. • Financial Issues • In the colonies, the government couldn’t tax the citizens so that made it very difficult to get out of debt and pay for expenses. • Yemen is naturally a low income country. It relies on declining oil resources for revenue. • Government • In both, most had bicameral legislatures. Meaning it has two houses. SimilaritiesYemen Today VS. American Revolution

  7. Military • During the 1700s in the colonies, women were limited to jobs and couldn’t serve in the military. • In Yemen, there are 4,116,895 women qualified to serve in the military. • Slavery • In the colonies, whites were the superior race. Slaves weren’t freed because their labor was needed. (abolished in 1808) • In Yemen, everyone is equal no matter their race, age, nationality, etc. • Government • The colonies didn’t have an executive or judicial branch. • Yemen today, has an executive, judicial, and legislative. DifferencesYemen Today VS. American Revolution

  8. It will take a long time for Yemen to encounter anything close to peace. With a president like Yemen’s , it will be difficult to get the country on the right path to success especially when you have a president that won’t voluntarily leave office anytime soon. It is very possible that another revolution will come. On the right path?

  9. http://geology.com/world/yemen-satellite-image.shtml • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen • http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2094613,00.html • http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2056712,00.html • http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/yemen/index.html Work Cited

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