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Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
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Arab Spring
Protests and revolutions in the Arab world in the 2010s
The Arab Spring was a series of pro-democracy anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and economic stagnation. From Tunisia, the protests initially…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Yemeni revolution
Yemeni upheaval occurring simultaneously with the Arab Spring (2011)
The Yemeni revolution followed the initial stages of the Tunisian revolution and occurred simultaneously with the 2011 Egyptian revolution and other Arab Spring protests in the Middle East and North Africa. In its early phase, protests in Yemen were initially against…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ali Abdullah Saleh
President of Yemen from 1978 to 2012
Ali Abdullah Saleh was a Yemeni military officer and politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Yemen from the Yemeni unification in 1990 until his resignation in 2012, following the Yemeni revolution. Previously, he had served as the fifth and last…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
November 23
Day of the year
November 23 is the 327th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 38 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)