YEMEN CRISIS AND IT'S IMPACT
- Yemen is the poorest country in the gulf.
- yemen govt is sunni rule.
- chronic food inflation - high unemployment- exploitation of wealth ,"discrimination" and government aggression"
- lead to revolution by the houthi(an offshoot of shiiat islam -zaydism)
- minority in north western part of the yemen.
- houthi rebels ceased yemen's capital sanna which compeled president and prime minister seek exodus in egypt
- and shift the capital to Aden temporarily.
- situation escalating in YEMEN
- soudi arabia interfering in yemen through air strikes
- this is not the first time: 2004 shia uprising
- SA:despite quelling the situation on the ground houthi advance not yet stoped.
- yemen got stratigically located got the choke point of europe-asia trade in gulf of aden(Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait)
- unified military force=22Arab States combat yemen crisis
- UN:CALL FOR SECURING YEMEN SOVEREIGNITY and support peacefull Transition
- its impact on world politics.
- huge ramifications
- IRAN may feel:US resort to quelling rather peacefull transition along with its allies
- this may cast shadow on iran usa deal which have a wider consequences in combating ISIS
- which inturn contribute to the regional instability.
- first country to be asked to resort to military actions is pakistan.
- pakistan turned down the request.
- as highest segment of india's diaspora lives in gulf ,a great cause of concern.
- global concern
- civil war benefiting terrorist govt
- AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) rise in yemen (is a militant Islamist organization).


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